melancholist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From melancholy + -ist.
Noun
[edit]melancholist (plural melancholists)
- (obsolete or poetic) One affected with melancholy or dejection.
- 1676, Joseph Glanvill, The Usefulness of Real Philosophy to Religion:
- the Melancholist was afraid to ſit down for fear of being broken, ſuppoſing himself of Glass
References
[edit]- “melancholist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.