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Dejection

noun

A state of melancholy depression.

Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels. Synonyms: BM, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool.

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"Dejection" Quotes from Famous Books

... I am too old to bear up against these evils. The ardour that once inspired me is gone; my poor frame is exhausted by study and watchfulness, and this last misfortune has hurried me towards the grave." He concluded in a tone of deep dejection. Antonio endeavoured to comfort and reassure him; but the poor alchymist had for once awakened to a consciousness of the worldly ills that were gathering around him, and had sunk into despondency. After a pause, and some ...

— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving

... with such seeming spirits as are certainly more becoming than an apparent dejection. But I dread to think to what, I verily believe, that he will be reduced. I utter no complaint, but I feel the danger I am in, and the distress which it may occasion to me, and still more Lord N(orth's) abominable treatment of me. If I had resented it, as many would have done, I know ...

— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... look back and savor again something of the profound dejection of that time. I could not face the passengers; I even avoided Karamaneh and Aziz. I shut myself in my cabin and sat staring aimlessly into the growing darkness. The steward knocked, once, inquiring if I needed anything, ...

— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... and, looking up at the hill, saw that it was high time. The rider had vanished, but his jaded horse was standing half-way up the hillside in the mire of loose sand. It was either too frightened or too weary to move, and stood there knee-deep, a picture of dejection. ...

— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

... you find fossils?" "How do you know where to look for them?" One of the charms of the fossil-hunter's life is the variety, the element of certainty combined with the gambling element of chance. Like the prospector for gold, the fossil-hunter may pass suddenly from the extreme of dejection to the extreme of elation. Luck comes in a great variety of ways: sometimes as the result of prolonged and deliberate scientific search in a region which is known to be fossiliferous; sometimes in such a prosaic manner as the digging of a well. ...

— Dinosaurs - With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections • William Diller Matthew

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