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- noun Plural form of
megrim . - noun Any of various diseases of animals, especially horses. (More at
megrim .) - noun usually with "the" Depression, low spirits, unhappiness.
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- noun a state of depression
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Examples
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We call our megrims the melancholy of a sublime soul, the yearnings of an indigestion we denominate yearnings after immortality, nay, sometimes 'a proof of the nature of the soul! '
Paul Clifford — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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We call our megrims the melancholy of a sublime soul, the yearnings of an indigestion we denominate yearnings after immortality, nay, sometimes
Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And George Eliot - even though Adam Bede gives me the megrims. rabbit cages for sale permalink
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These books may just shake me out of my summer megrims and lassitude.
Arrived! superversive 2006
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I cured a poor old woman of the megrims by making the sign of the cross behind her.
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Prickles of exhilarations sparkled through Antony, banishing his megrims.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Prickles of exhilarations sparkled through Antony, banishing his megrims.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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If these megrims are the effect of love, thank Heaven, I never knew what it was.
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And, lighting upon Tourville, I took him home with me, and made him sing me out of my megrims.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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My Neighbor Totoro is also a good antidote to the megrims, and there's always Spirited Away.
Waiting for Ivan... 2004
bilby commented on the word megrims
"They do say it's always darkest before the dawn, she thought. I reckon this is proof of it. I've got the megrims, that's all."
- Stephens Mitchell, 'Scarlett'.
June 12, 2009
5814738 commented on the word megrims
"And, she supposed, it really hadn't been such a bad idea; if nothing else, it had kept the worst of her megrims away." From Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.
January 22, 2011
blafferty commented on the word megrims
"Dix lit a cigarette and also surveyed the room. Nice people, healthy and wealthy. Normal as you and me. Normal as Sylvia when she didn't have the megrims."
From In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes
March 7, 2013