Definitions For Atrabiliousness

Noun

ATRABILIOUSNESS (uncountable) The state or quality of being atrabilious. (medicine, obsolete) The state or quality of having an excess of black bile. grumpiness, grumpiness, irritability, melancholy, moroseness. 's] works; though they have little of originality, and his ſtyle has a certain atrabiliouſneſs, and his tiſſue of paragraphs an unpleaſing quaintneſs, it must be confeſſed that his w:a dictionary of the english language, dictionary, w:the rambler, rambler, and the two imitative translations of tranſlations of , &c. are very excellent; " 2013, Anne-Marie Millim, “‘Troops of Unrecording Friends’: Vicarious Celebrity in the Memoir”, in Charlotte Boyce, Páraic Finnerty, Anne-Marie Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle, Basingstoke, Hampshire: , special:booksources/9781137007933, isbn 978-1-137-00793-3: : The text is 'suffused with decorous domesticity', which, w:richard altick, [richard] altick has argued, is due to its rigorous omission of the 'idiosyncrasies that made [w:alfred, lord tennyson, [alfred, lord] tennyson] the engaging and often formidable character he was – his vanity, his atrabiliousness [and] his shaggy Lincolnshire abruptness.'