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Definition of Melancholies
1. melancholy [n] - See also: melancholy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melancholies
Literary usage of Melancholies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1873)
"... of some melancholies. In this paper Dr. Morel considers the subject in a
general manner, and also in reference to the effect of the late war in ..."
2. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1875)
"The Value of the Testimony of melancholies.— The principles already enunciated,
and the rules laid clown with regard to partial mania in relation to ..."
3. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"The Value of the Testimony of melancholies.— The principles already enunciated,
and the rules laid down with regard to partial mania in relation to ..."
4. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"Of tearful smiles and laughing melancholies, With summer roses twined and wintry
hollies. This her poor book is full of saddest follies, In the strange ..."
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