"besozzlement" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1934, Theodora Benson, Chip, Chip, My Little Horse: The Story of an Air-holiday, page 34:",
          "text": "One group has reached a quietly maudlin stage of besozzlement.",
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          "ref": "2011 February 23, Ben Kendall, “Tex Mex II”, in The Journal, number XLIV, University of Edinburgh, page 20:",
          "text": "Tex Mex II proffers authentically fun Texican fare with an element of theatricality that brightens the face with a smile and the contented glaze of Tequila besozzlement.",
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          "ref": "2023 May 13, Van Badham, “The culture of mistrust is bleeding into our personal lives. No wonder there’s a sex recession”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "This news of his death, though, has shattered me. The memory that replays itself dates from 19 years ago; we’d stumbled into my apartment to crash after an all-night drunken adventure, and in his besozzlement he found himself unable to remove his contact lenses.",
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        "A state of intoxication; drunkenness."
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        "(UK, informal, rare) A state of intoxication; drunkenness."
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          "ref": "2011 February 23, Ben Kendall, “Tex Mex II”, in The Journal, number XLIV, University of Edinburgh, page 20:",
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