Saturnist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. archaic

    "Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]"

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"Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]"

Etymology

From Saturn + -ist.

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