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In the old theory of the four humors, melancholy was linked to an excess of which humor?

melancholy

[mel-uhn-kol-ee] / ˈmɛl ənˌkɒl i /




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The band’s third set, the melancholy “We Will Always Love You,” arrived in 2020—quickly by Avalanches standards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Poetic, melancholy and groundbreaking for its era, many people consider it one of the best video games ever made.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

One of the most melancholy cultural histories is that of the short-lived Russian Renaissance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Released in June, the group’s fourth album, “Escrito en Agua,” is a bohemian tour de force — a bewitching combination of freestyle poetry, menacing Krautrock, melancholy shades of jazz and post-rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

The pains, regrets and melancholies of the adult characters mingle with the fresher but no less complex experiences of the teenagers getting a taste of love, death and fellowship for the first time.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Says Faber Birren, 82, the dean of American color researchers: "Color distracts you from yourself and relieves you of inner anxieties, melancholies and fears."

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, it was a pretty place; and I felt such "dispositions to melancholies," as Sir Hugh Evans would have it, that I half resented Mr. S.'s suggestion that the cars were waiting.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"You 've fallen into the black melancholies these some days back," said Rogers to me.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever

"Jaques" = "Jack" = "Pike," while on the other side we get, through him of As You Like It, an explanation of "melancholies."

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury


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