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adjective

Dejected adj. Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance.

verb

Deject v. t. (past & past part. dejected; pres. part. dejecting)

To cast down. (Obs. or Archaic) "Christ dejected himself even unto the hells." "Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look."

To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. "Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind."

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"Dejected" Quotes from Famous Books

... sad leave-taking as in silence I shook hands with each of the three remaining men. Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor. Not once did I turn my eyes backward toward Fort Dinosaur. I have not looked upon it since—nor in all likelihood shall I ever look upon it ...

— The Land That Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... was ordered to retire to Asher, a country seat which he possessed near Hampton Court. The world, that had paid him such abject court during his prosperity, now entirely deserted him on this fatal reverse of all his fortunes. He himself was much dejected with the change; and from the same turn of mind which had made him be so vainly elated with his grandeur, he felt the stroke of adversity with double rigor.[**] The smallest appearance of his return to favor ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - From Henry VII. to Mary • David Hume

... a few miles such as we have tried to describe it, the glen becomes narrower, and the scenery rougher. Granite masses crop out here and there. The pretty dejected weeping birches become mixed with stern, stiff, surly pines, which look as if they could "do any thing but weep," and not unnaturally suggest the notion that their harsh conduct may be the cause of the tears of their gentler companions. At last a mountain ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

... Napoleon. "March quicker!" he kept repeating, without admitting the marshal to see him, without ever going himself towards the rear of his army—apparently indifferent to the sufferings he had produced, absorbed in gloomy silence, surrounded by his lieutenants equally dejected. When passing Borodino, where the battle-field was still covered with the corpses, of which savage beasts were in undisputed possession, the rear-guard were still further encumbered by the transport of the ...

— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt

... "They generally appear extremely dejected. I have seen in the course of five years, on the road near where I reside, 12 or 15 droves at least, passing to the south. They would average 40 in each drove. Near the first of January, 1834, I started about sunrise to go to Lewisburg. It was a bitter cold morning. ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

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