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deliquium

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A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.

A sinking away; a swooning.

A melting or maudlin mood.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All over the world, the nation, in a dream Of money and love and sport, hangs at the paps Of well-being, and so Goes fattening, mellowing, dozing, rotting down Into a rich deliquium of decay. William Ernest Henley

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