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Definition of Chapfallen
1. Adjective. Brought low in spirit. "Left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"
Definition of Chapfallen
1. a. Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.
Definition of Chapfallen
1. Adjective. crestfallen, dejected ¹
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Definition of Chapfallen
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapfallen
Literary usage of Chapfallen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Dejected, disheartened, depressed, discouraged, down-hearted, downcast, despondent,
cast down, crestfallen, chapfallen, down in the mouth. ..."
2. The Court of England Under George IV. by Charlotte Campbell Bury (1896)
"I have not yet seen her myself, but I hear that she is looking extremely ill, is
in very low spirits, and in short is evidently quite chapfallen.—Addio. ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... or by the half-barbarous, half- idiotic triumph in the eyes of a man who sweeps
within his arms the ventures of twenty chapfallen companions. ..."
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