Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being melancholy; disposition to be melancholy or gloomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being melancholy.
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- noun The quality of being
melancholy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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COX: You know, in your music, there is a certain - and to my mind - I'm going to create this word, I don't know that it exists - a certain "melancholiness" about some of your approaches to music.
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The days came and went, and after a few months of melancholiness he grew a little bit better.
The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story John Roussel
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Not long ago, there were verses in each of three fresh monthlies, from leading authors, and in every one the whole central motif (perfectly serious) was the melancholiness of a marriageable young woman who didnt get a rich husband, but a poor one!
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Formerly two pontifical _gente d'armi_ in full uniform had always stood there amidst a stream of lackeys; and the single servant now on duty seemed by his phantom-like appearance to increase the melancholiness of the vast and gloomy hall.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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Formerly two pontifical _gente d'armi_ in full uniform had always stood there amidst a stream of lackeys; and the single servant now on duty seemed by his phantom-like appearance to increase the melancholiness of the vast and gloomy hall.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Formerly two pontifical/gente d'armi/in full uniform had always stood there amidst a stream of lackeys; and the single servant now on duty seemed by his phantom-like appearance to increase the melancholiness of the vast and gloomy hall.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871
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Not long ago, there were verses in each of three fresh monthlies, from leading authors, and in every one the whole central motif (perfectly serious) was the melancholiness of a marriageable young woman who didn't get a rich husband, but a poor one!
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Not long ago, there were verses in each of three fresh monthlies, from leading authors, and in every one the whole central _motif_ (perfectly serious) was the melancholiness of a marriageable young woman who didn't get a rich husband, but a poor one!
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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