sullen

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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.”

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