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melancholiac

NOUN
  1. someone subject to melancholia

How To Use melancholiac In A Sentence

  • This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven -- Mallare would have killed him. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath
  • The planet Saturn is connected to the melancholiac personality.
  • The ranks of mannerist musicians furnish numerous instances of melancholiac and eccentric artists.
  • The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life. The Nervous Child
  • I would argue that Max is a secret melancholiac: he cannot commence mourning because he has not acknowledged that he lost something in the crash.
  • I daresay I _am_ -- but I _do_ object to being made out a hopeless melancholiac! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891
  • At first the patients are irritable; later, depression of the melancholiac type dominates the clinical picture.
  • Did Mr. Follett strike you as a melancholiac type?
  • The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief.
  • He argues that the melancholiac's self-loathing disguises a hostility towards the lost, beloved object, indicating an underlying ambivalence towards it.
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