Both Uses
melancholy
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Ligeia
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- The gloomy and dreary grandeur of the building, the almost savage aspect of the domain, the many melancholy and time-honored memories connected with both, had much in unison with the feelings of utter abandonment which had driven me into that remote and unsocial region of the country.†
*melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- From out the most central recess of this melancholy vaulting, depended, by a single chain of gold with long links, a huge censer of the same metal, Saracenic in pattern, and with many perforations so contrived that there writhed in and out of them, as if endued with a serpent vitality, a continual succession of parti-colored fires.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)