Citations:atrabiliousness

English citations of atrabiliousness

1. The state or quality of being atrabilious.
   1. (medicine, obsolete) The state or quality of having an excess of black bile.
   2. Grumpiness, irritability, melancholy, moroseness.
      • 1829, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, “Preface”, in A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Robert Jenkins, and John Major, →OCLC, pages xxiv–xxv:

        It is not always agreeable for an Author to have his Works reflected through the medium of a translation; especially where the Translator suffers a portion, however small, of his own atrabiliousness, to be mixed up with the work translated: nor is it always safe for a third person to judge of the merits of the original through such a medium.

      • 1991, Bryan S[tanley] Turner, Religion and Social Theory, 2nd edition, London: Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 144:

        Christianity in the past may have been much weaker than commonly assumed, whereas Christianity in the present may be much stronger than attritionists normally suggest (Martin, 1967). As perspectives, attritionism and atrabiliousness are […]