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melancholy
in
A Sketch of the Past
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- He cannot have been as severe and melancholy and morose as I make him out.†
*melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- And beneath this reserve, when he was with us, I felt, though he could not say a word ever about his feelings, a dumb affectionateness, a pride in us, and something melancholy too—perhaps the deaths of mother and Stella made him older than his age.†
- By this time, aged sixty, he would have been a distinguished figure; but not prominent; for he was too melancholy, too independent, unconforming, to take any ready made mould.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)