different between lamenting vs melancholy
lamenting
English
Verb
lamenting
- present participle of lament
Noun
lamenting (plural lamentings)
- Lamentation.
- 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd,[1]
- If gronyngs greate, get grace at God,
- and loude lamentyngs, loue:
- I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,
- shall God to mercie moue.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- The night has been unruly: where we lay,
- Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
- Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death […]
- 1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48,[3]
- Lose not the Moments
- In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past:
- One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,
- 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd,[1]
Anagrams
- alignment, gintleman, manteling
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melancholy
English
Alternative forms
- melancholly, melancholie, melancholious (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English malencolie, from Old French melancolie, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (melankholía, “atrabiliousness”), from ????? (mélas), ?????- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + ???? (khol?, “bile”). Compare the Latin ?tra b?lis (“black bile”). The adjectival use is a Middle English innovation, perhaps influenced by the suffixes -y, -ly.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mel?nk?li/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?l.?n?k?l.i/
Noun
melancholy (countable and uncountable, plural melancholies)
- (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
- , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
- Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, […] is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
- , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
- Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, V. i. 34:
- My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
- I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician’s, which is fantastical; nor the courtier’s, which is proud; nor the soldier’s, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer’s, which is politic; nor the lady’s, which is nice; nor the lover’s, which is all these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, V. i. 34:
Translations
Adjective
melancholy (comparative more melancholy, superlative most melancholy)
- (literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Synonyms
- (thoughtful sadness): melancholic
- See also Thesaurus:sad
Translations
Related terms
- melancholic
- sadness
- melancholia
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