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Definition of Demoralising
1. Adjective. Destructive of morale and self-reliance.
Definition of Demoralising
1. Verb. (present participle of demoralise) ¹
2. Adjective. disheartening ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demoralising
Literary usage of Demoralising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Church and State: Their Relations Historically Developed by Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken (1877)
"... Legislation—Immunities of the Clergy—Endowment of the Church—Her Criminal and
Civil Jurisdiction—demoralising Effects of State-Patronage — Constantino ..."
2. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"... mills were now generally worked, not by water, but by steam—that Apprentices
had been given up, but that :he same exhausting and demoralising labour, ..."
3. Newfoundland: the Oldest British Colony: Its History, Its Present Condition by Moses Harvey, Joseph Hatton (1883)
"demoralising systems of pauper relief—Proposed confederation of Newfoundland and
... The effect was most demoralising. Many persons who could have made some ..."
4. Manual of Political Ethics by Francis Lieber (1838)
"demoralising eflect of a Politically Debased Society upon the Individual.—Political
Ethics especially important in Free Countries. ..."
5. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1873)
"Of the two methods of trial perhaps the ordeal was the less demoralising to the
laity. To them (whatever may have been its effect upon the clergy) it r was ..."
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