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Definition of Dispiritedness
1. Noun. A feeling of low spirits. "He felt responsible for her lowness of spirits"
Generic synonyms: Sadness, Unhappiness
Derivative terms: Dispirited, Dispirited, Downhearted, Low-spirited, Low, Low
Definition of Dispiritedness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being dispirited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dispiritedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispiritedness
Literary usage of Dispiritedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"certain dispiritedness and foreboding of disaster in the Persian camp. An anecdote
told by one of the guests at a Theban banquet was thought to illustrate ..."
2. The Monthly Review (1843)
"She soon resumed, in a great degree, her former good habits, but still there was
a little of the dawdle left about her; the remains of the dispiritedness ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"If it had been the response of any one else, its lukewarmness, not to say
dispiritedness, would have created some distrust in the hearer; ..."
4. The History of New Hampshire by Jeremy Belknap (1831)
"Frequent complaints were made of the burden of the war, the scarcity of provisions,
and the dispiritedness of the people. Once, it is said, in the council ..."
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