All 3 Uses
melancholy
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Pygmalion
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- THE FLOWER GIRL [subsiding into a brooding melancholy over her basket, and talking very low-spiritedly to herself] I'm a good girl, I am.†
Act 1 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- DOOLITTLE ["most musical, most melancholy"] I'll tell you, Governor, if you'll only let me get a word in.†
Act 2
- DOOLITTLE [with melancholy resignation] Yes, ma'am; I'm expected to provide for everyone now, out of three thousand a year.†
Act 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)