melancholic
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Auden also believed that Kafka’s writing could be dangerous for melancholics and that perhaps this is why Kafka wanted it destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Like the melancholics and hysterics who succeeded them, their symptoms have been subsumed under new diagnostic categories.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2014
Bilious people have too little sodium sulfate, the melancholics are lacking in potassium sulfate and phosphate; too little calcium phosphate in the phlegmatics.
From History of Phosphorus by Farber, Eduard
At both extremities of ancient Egypt, a country which was at that time exceedingly populous and flourishing, were temples dedicated to Saturn, whither melancholics resorted in crowds in quest of relief.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Thenceforth we see them everywhere, those poor melancholics, loathing, shuddering at their own selves.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
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