Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tearful; exhibiting a tearful sentimentality.
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Examples
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He was so larmoyant the other morning, that I did not dare to ask him any questions about it.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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He prepared some plays based on Spanish dramas in opposition to the spread of the sentimental drama as represented by the drame larmoyant and tragédie bourgeoise of French origin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Written in prose, it represents the introduction into Spain of that form of the sentimental drama, or melodrama, which had been developed in French, as the drame larmoyant or drame bourgeois, by Diderot and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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He was so larmoyant the other morning, that I did not dare to ask him any questions about it.
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"I do my best," she said in a larmoyant tone, "but I can't do everything, what with having to cook, and clean, and run up and down stairs with notes, and answer the bell every other minute to lords."
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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The national disposition is for hard-hitting, with a moral purpose to sanction it; or for a rosy, sometimes a larmoyant, geniality, not unmanly in its verging upon tenderness, and with a singular attraction for thick-headedness, to decorate it with asses 'ears and the most beautiful sylvan haloes.
Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The national disposition is for hard-hitting, with a moral purpose to sanction it; or for a rosy, sometimes a larmoyant, geniality, not unmanly in its verging upon tenderness, and with a singular attraction for thick-headedness, to decorate it with asses 'ears and the most beautiful sylvan haloes.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Durendal, and regarding it _ "with great pity and compassion," _ he exclaimed, in a loud voice, "plorant et larmoyant:" --
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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But thou know'st I can be a right merry and conceited fellow, and rarely 'larmoyant.'
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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I hate being _larmoyant_, and making a serious face among those who are cheerful.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
qms commented on the word larmoyant
His moods are weirdly erratic
But never are less than emphatic.
In sunshine he's buoyant
On gray days larmoyant
But always he's melodramatic.
December 8, 2015