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melancholian

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects And hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse

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