deject
English
Verb
Make sad or dispirited.
* Benjamin Franklin
- I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
(obsolete) To cast down.
* Udall
- Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
* Fuller
- Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
Quotations
* 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03459385&id=fx8LAAAAMAAJ&q=dejects&dq=dejects&pgis=1] (page 215)
*: Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism.
* 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00764755&id=U6cQm3IcVHcC&q=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&dq=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&pgis=1]
*: On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.
Derived terms
* dejected
* dejection
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