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Meanings of melencolia in English

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Personification of melancholia.

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Examples for "melancholy"
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London producer James Mathé's way with melancholy continues to serve him well.
The Irish Times
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My eyes are the colour of burned wine; in them lives melancholy.
The Little Dream: An Allegory in Six Scenes
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Maloof took one last melancholy look at his new ceiling, and left.
The Golem and the Jinni
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I am; and it is the most melancholy journey I ever attempted.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
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The greatness of the affair terrified him; yet its melancholy drew him.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
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More than 30 years ago, Gibson suggested a therapy for post-utopian melancholia.
The Guardian
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The British had their bout of melancholia in the early 17th century.
The Irish Times
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Surely your melancholia would not return if you were away from here.
The Asylum
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It was an aesthetic he himself had favored, before his present melancholia.
Imajica: Complete Edition
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No amount of comedy kerflumping can lift the ever-present air of melancholia.
The Guardian
Usage of melencolia in English
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The genderless angel in his celebrated engraving Melencolia I, looks up at just such a comet.
The Guardian
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The Melencolia that transcends all wit.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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He created as a young man in joy and freedom, but the wings of Dürer's bat were outstretched over his head: Melencolia!
Promenades of an Impressionist