melancholly

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Adjective

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melancholly (comparative more melancholly, superlative most melancholly)

  1. Obsolete spelling of melancholy.

Noun

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melancholly (countable and uncountable, plural melanchollies)

  1. Obsolete spelling of melancholy.
    • 1706, [Roger] De Piles, translated by [John Savage], The Art of Painting, and the Lives of the Painters: […], London: […] J. Nutt […], page 209:
      He was very thoughtful and his Melancholly was ſo great, that at laſt it craz’d him: […]
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