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Answer for the clue "A communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted ", 14 letters:
disheartenment

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
disheartenment \dis*heart"en*ment\ (d[i^]s*h[aum]rt"'n*ment), n. Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of dishearten. 2 The state of being disheartened; dejection.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles [syn: discouragement , dismay ] a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted

Usage examples of disheartenment.

Mississippi waters, stayed for the rest of the winter, building for shelter and protection a fort which he named Fort Crevecoeur, not to memorialize his own disheartenments as some hint, but, as we are assured by other historians, to celebrate the demolition of Fort Crevecoeur in the Netherlands by Louis XIV, in which Tonty had participated.

Sick people ofttimes fall into a mood of disheartenment and self-pity which seriously retards their recovery.

There La Salle, detained by Indian suspicions of his alliance with the Iroquois, discouraged by the desertion of some of his own men and by the certainty that the _Griffin_ was lost beyond all question not only with its skins but with the materials for a vessel, which he purposed building for the Mississippi waters, stayed for the rest of the winter, building for shelter and protection a fort which he named Fort Crevecoeur, not to memorialize his own disheartenments as some hint, but, as we are assured by other historians, to celebrate the demolition of Fort Crevecoeur in the Netherlands by Louis XIV, in which Tonty had participated.