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melancholians

melancholians is the plural of melancholian.

Meaning of melancholian

Noun

melancholian (plural melancholians)

  1. (obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
    • And hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects

Questions about melancholians

What is melancholians the plural of?
Melancholians is the plural of melancholian.

Words near melancholians in the dictionary

  1. Melanchlaeni
  2. melancholia
  3. melancholiac
  4. melancholiacs
  5. melancholian
  6. melancholians
  7. melancholias
  8. melancholic
  9. melancholic personality disorder
  10. melancholically
  11. melancholick

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