diˈspiritment
[f. dispirit v. + -ment.]
The state of being dispirited; disheartenment; depression of spirits.
| 1827 Carlyle Germ. Rom. IV. W. Meister 250 A spirit of dispiritment. 1830 ― Richter Misc. (1872) III. 25 Some with their modesty and quiet endurance combining a sickly dispiritment. 1830 ― in Froude Life (1882) II. 116, I look..forward to a life of poverty, toil and dispiritment. 1843 ― Past & Pr. iii. xiii. 295 You honestly..quit a most muddy confused coil..of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions. 1866 Lowell Lessing Pr. Wks. 1890 II. 207 What he wrote under the dispiritment of failure. |