How many groundless opinions and absurd institutions have not received a general sanction from the sottishness and intemperance of individuals!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
His next thought plunged him into contempt for Kit Ines, on account of the fellow's lapses to sottishness.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
Such was the sottishness of this man, that when he was in liquor, he always indulged a dream of his wife's being still alive, and would talk very spightfully of those by whom he suspected she was entertained.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber