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melancholizing

melancholizing is the present participle and gerund of melancholize.

Meaning of melancholize

Verb

melancholize (third-person singular simple present melancholizes, present participle melancholizing, simple past and past participle melancholized)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make melancholy.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.
    • Many men […] are ſo deiected many times for ſome publike iniury, […] that they dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholiſe in corners, and keepe in holes.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 88

Questions about melancholizing

What is melancholizing the present participle and gerund of?
Melancholizing is the present participle and gerund of melancholize.

Words near melancholizing in the dictionary

  1. melancholist
  2. melancholists
  3. melancholize
  4. melancholized
  5. melancholizes
  6. melancholizing
  7. melanchollies
  8. melancholly
  9. melancholous
  10. melancholy
  11. melancholy thistle

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