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melancholy
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns.†
melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic.†
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- And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic.†
- He stands melancholy on the crest of the road.†
- If even there had been sheep munching, pushing one foot after another, or a bird, or a man driving a spade into the earth, had there been a bramble to trip me, or a ditch, damp with soaked leaves, into which to fall—but no, the melancholy path led along the level, to more wintriness and pallor and the equal and uninteresting view of the same landscape.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)