Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being atrabilious or melancholy.
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- noun The state or quality of being
atrabilarious .
Etymologies
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From Latin ātra bīlis ("black bile").
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Examples
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Old Nick probably did not come off because at the moment he was an atrabilarian suffering acutely from black bile or black choler, and his atrabilariousness was making him woefully chumpish.
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