† diˈspiritude Obs.
[f. dispirit, after solicitude, decrepitude, etc.]
Dispirited condition.
| 1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXII. 512 Considering how general was the dispiritude of his troops. 1814 ― Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 30 Infidels have complained that the Christian religion..drives men into dispiritude. |