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Definition of Dejecting
1. deject [v] - See also: deject
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dejecting
Literary usage of Dejecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"It is a dreadful momentary concept, more dejecting than the fear which attends
the coming on of ... This seems to the present writer a ' dejecting concept. ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1875)
"It is dejecting to be obliged to hear the sigh, in conclusion, that " the practical
value of this noble study is perhaps only fully known to the more ..."
3. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, Terms & Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"What more fretting, dejecting, or vexatious ? In the phrase, the part, limb, ...
Our substantive mortification, both as dejecting disappointment and ..."
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