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

Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind. Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul. Addison. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion. J. D. Forbes.

The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange.

Dejection; despondency; lowness. In a great depression of spirit. Baker.

state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.

g, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection. Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 1 Sam. xiv. 20. A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace. Macaulay.

Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray.

Dejection; grief. [R.] Bp. Hall.

f discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.

Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

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

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.

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.

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

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