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Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.

Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet. I was down and out of breath. Shak. The moon is down; I have not heard the clock. Shak. He that is down needs fear no fall. Bunyan.

Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt. 'T is love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise. Dryden. - Down"cast`ly, adv. -- Down"cast`ness, n.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

, but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. "Excepting your worship's presence." Shak. No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. Lubbock.

g, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.

To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Prov. xxiv. 10.

Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection. I will send a faintness into their hearts. Lev. xxvi. 36.

Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc. Shak.

pecially when tending to promote schism or separation; lack of orthodox or sound belief; rejection of, or erroneous belief in regard to, some fundamental religious doctrine or truth; heterodoxy. Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd. S…

a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction.

Not liable to exception or rejection. Sir W. Hamilton.

reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled; as, an irreversible sentence or decree. This rejection of the Jews, as it is not universal, so neither is it final and irreversible. Jortin.

Without dejection; cheerfully. "Seeming to bear it lightly." Shak.

One affected with melancholy or dejection. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak.

To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage. I offer thee three things. 2 Sam. xxiv. 12.