Definition of "morosity" []

• The quality or state of being morose. (noun)

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• ""They who conversed with him knew him to have many humours which were very intolerable; they who were but little acquainted with him took him to be a man of much knowledge, and called his morosity gravity.""
• "I am sorry to hear that he grows every day more froward, and with such a kind of morosity, that doth either argue a great discontent in mind, or a distemper of humours in his body."
• "They embraced a sort of enthusiastic fatalism, a sort of ebullient morosity."