Definition of "melancholly"

melancholly

adjective
comparative more melancholly, superlative most melancholly
1. Obsolete spelling of melancholy.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural melanchollies
1. Obsolete spelling of melancholy.
  Quotations
  He was very thoughtful and his Melancholly was ſo great, that at laſt it craz’d him: […]
  1706, [Roger] De Piles, translated by [John Savage], The Art of Painting, and the Lives of the Painters: […], London: […] J. Nutt […], page 209