DEJECTION

n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A casting down; depression. [Obs. or Archaic] Hallywell.

2.
n.

The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson.

3.
n.

Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring. Milton.

4.
n.

A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.] A dejection of appetite. Arbuthnot.

5.
n.

The discharge of excrement.

6.
n.

Fæces; excrement. Ray.

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