Crossword clues for dejection
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dejection \De*jec"tion\, n. [L. dejectio a casting down: cf. F. d['e]jection.]
A casting down; depression. [Obs. or Archaic]
--Hallywell.-
The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
Adoration implies submission and dejection.
--Bp. Pearson. -
Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring.
--Milton. -
A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.]
A dejection of appetite.
--Arbuthnot. -
(Physiol.)
The discharge of excrement.
F[ae]ces; excrement.
--Ray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French dejection "abjection, depravity; casting down" and directly from Latin dejectionem (nominative dejectio), noun of action from past participle stem of dejicere "to cast down" (see deject).
Wiktionary
n. 1 a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues 2 The act of humbling or abasing oneself. 3 A low condition; weakness; inability. 4 (context medicine archaic English) defecation or feces.
WordNet
n. a state of melancholy depression
solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure]
Usage examples of "dejection".
So had the tampering with the bomb line before the mission to Bologna and the seven-day delay in destroying the bridge at Ferrara, even though destroying the bridge at Ferrara finally, he remembered with glee, had been a real feather in his cap, although losing a plane there the second time around, he recalled in dejection, had been another black eye, even though he had won another real feather in his cap by getting a medal approved for the bombardier who had gotten him the real black eye in the first place by going around over the target twice.
Phoebe were sitting on the deck, he had been uncomfortably aware of Covey sitting on his deck, his posture reflecting dejection and despair.
Ritz in deepest dejection, for he already saw himself sitting alone in the evening thinking and thinking and gnawing on his slate pencil, while Sally and Edi could pursue their merry entertainments.
Back in his living room, Goldy Tancred was no longer a figure of dejection.
Consequently, the hurrahs which greeted the return of Lord Glenarvan to the yacht soon gave place to dejection.
And sitting lunchless in the hall of his hotel, with tourists passing every moment, Baedeker in hand, he was visited by black dejection.
From this pinnacle of elation and pride they were precipitated to the abyss of despondence or dejection, by the account of the miscarriage at St.
The loneliness of my position, the hopelessness of my venture, welled up in my heart after that good comradeship, and when the hut was out of sight I went forward down the green grass road, chin on chest, for twenty minutes in the deepest dejection.
The loneliness of my position, the hopelessness of my venture, welled up in my heart after that good comradeship, and when the hut was out of sight I went forward down the green grass road, chin on chest, for twenty minutes in the deepest dejection.
Occasionally the attack is ushered in with a chill and aching pains in various parts of the body, with copious fecal dejections.
His Slavophil and reactionary effusions are rather second-rate, but some of the elegies, written in a state of dejection during his sufferings, have genuine human feeling in them without losing any of his verbal splendor.
Tyndareus uprose, and lifted their hands to the immortals praying for each boon: but dejection held the rest of the Minyan heroes.
As the door chanced to be standing open, Mr. Woodcourt was in his presence for some moments without being perceived, and he told me that he never could forget the haggardness of his face and the dejection of his manner before he was aroused from his dream.
While he was alone, in a moment of profound loneliness and dejection, he had used one of the cellular phones to call Peru.
The two schoolfriends celebrated their parting, both putting on a show of good cheer and repressing any sign of dejection.