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Meaning of sullen | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈsʌlən

Definitions

  1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
    archaic
  2. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.
    in-plural

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Examples

“He sit neither with seint Johan, / Symond ne Jude, / Ne with maydenes ne with martires, / Confessours ne wydewes; / But by hymself as a soleyn, / And served on erthe.”
“And let them die that age and sullens have;”
“If she be not sick of the sullens, I see not the least infirmity in her.”
“[M]y brother […] charged my desire of being excused coming down to sullens, because a certain person had been spoken against, upon whom, as he supposed, my fancy ran.”

CEFR level

C2
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