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spleen
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tags: [anatomy] [archaic]
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Definition:1. [archaic] an organ once considered the origin of mood swings, usually having a bad connotation2. a body organ that contains a reservoir of blood, removes defective red blood cells, and helps filter out blood pathogens
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Mrs. Epanchin flushed up; some accumulation of spleen in her suddenly needed an outlet. She could not bear this General Ivolgin whom she had once known, long ago— in society.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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‘Wash away your spleen,’ he said. ‘And help your own naughty pet and mine.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Prince Andrew seemed, and really was, quite a different, quite a new man. Where was his spleen, his contempt for life, his disillusionment?
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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To this I was silent out of partiality to my own kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen, which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious, and the rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same regimen, I would undertake for the cure.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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I was working on Bambi Kramer's drawings at the time, and quite spleenlessly, knowing as I did that my letter to Sister Irma was safely in the mail.
J.D. Salinger. Nine Stories: De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, p.155 (1948)
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