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Deject vs Demoralize - What's the difference?

deject | demoralize |

As verbs the difference between deject and demoralize

is that deject is make sad or dispirited while demoralize is (american spelling) to destroy morale; to dishearten.

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

    demoralize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) demoralise

    Verb

    (demoraliz)
  • (American spelling) To destroy morale; to dishearten.