Noun

(en noun)

a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues

The act of humbling or abasing oneself.

Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.

A low condition; weakness; inability.

A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.

(medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.

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, year=1855 , year_published= , publisher=Linday & Blakiston , author=Austin Flint , title=Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases , section=First Clinical Report on Continued Fever, Based on an Analysis of Forty-Two Cases citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=u_wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=dejection , page=39 , passage=No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.}}

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, year=1861 , year_published=2010 , publisher=Applewood Books , author=James Jackson , title=Another Letter to a Young Physician , section=Note I. John Lowell citation , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}

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, year=1921 , year_published=2000 , publisher=B. Jain Publishers , edition=2nd edition , author=Charles Signmund Raue , title=Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment , section=Chapter IX Diseases of the Intestines citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}

Noun

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

''Arming to answer in a night alarm . --Shakespeare.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

''Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. --Joel ii. 1.

A sudden attack; disturbance.

* Shakespeare

these home alarms

* Alexander Pope

thy palace fill with insults and alarms

Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

''Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. --.

A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.

''The clockradio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside

An instance of an alarum ringing or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.

''You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.