单词 | melancholiness |
释义 | melancholinessn. The condition of being melancholy; a tendency towards melancholy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] melancholya1393 melancholic1526 melancholiness1528 allichollya1616 black humour1621 spleen1664 atrabilariousness1731 black dog1776 atrabiliousness1882 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. B In this doctrine be comprehended melancolynes and heuines. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 407 Saffrond wyne bryngeth mirthe, and taketh away Melancholines. 1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. x. 213 All the care of his father and friends is to seeke how to purge his pensiuenesse, and to wipe off his melancholy sorrowes, and sorrowfull melancholinesse. a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: Hobbes (1898) I. 329 When he was a boy he was playsome enough, but withall he had even then a contemplative melancholinesse. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 4 A Vent to Melancholiness. 1844 Ladies' Repository Mar. 73/1 It is a common delusion of the world that religion consists of depression and melancholiness of spirits. 1881 W. Whitman in N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 203 The whole central motif..was the melancholiness of a marriageable young woman who didn't get a rich husband. 1987 New Leader (Nexis) 9 Feb. 19 The pleasant melancholiness of Allen's recent work may well be ‘Chekhovian’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1528 |
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