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Synonyms for spleen

Grammar : Noun
Spell : spleen
Phonetic Transcription : splin

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Définition of spleen

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French esplen, from Latin splen, from Greek splen, from PIE *splegh- (cf. Sanskrit plihan-, Avestan sperezan, Armenian p'aicaln, Latin lien, Old Church Slavonic slezena, Lithuanian bluznis, Old Prussian blusne, Old Irish selg "spleen"). Regarded in medieval physiology as the seat of morose feelings and bad temper. Hence figurative sense of "violent ill-temper" (1590s).
  • noun hate
Example sentences :
  • Which speaks of an intemperance in the splenetic parenchyma; that is to say, the spleen.
  • Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
  • And there's Saunders, who talks about nothing but his spleen.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • As you will; let us go indoors by all means, for this moon gives me the spleen.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • On April 19, 1888, the spleen was removed, the wound healed by first intention.
  • Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich
  • The most recent work on extirpation of the spleen for tumours is from Hartmann and Vasquez.
  • Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich
  • The spleen has not the least connection with ordinary leucocytosis.
  • Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich
  • This, with many other benevolent acts, served only to excite the spleen of his adversaries.
  • Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe
  • We seem gay, but at bottom we are devoured by spleen and a raging appetite.
  • Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
  • In this fit of the spleen he went to the theatre: there were eleven people in the boxes.
  • Extract from : « The Young Duke » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Dan Sullivan let no chance pass to vent his spleen on Larry.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various

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