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Definition of Disheartenment

1. Noun. The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles.

2. Noun. A communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted.

Definition of Disheartenment

1. n. Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Definition of Disheartenment

1. Noun. The act of disheartening. ¹

2. Noun. The state of being disheartened; dejection. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disheartenment

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Medical Definition of Disheartenment

1. Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disheartenment

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dishearted dishearten disheartened disheartening dishearteningly disheartenment (current term) disheartenments disheartens dishearting dished

dished out dished up disheir disheired disheiring disheirs dishelm dishelmed dishelming dishelms

Literary usage of Disheartenment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Camille Desmoulins and His Wife: Passages from the History of the Dantonists by Jules Claretie, Frances Cashel Hoey (1876)
"... Marie-Antoinette— Struggle with the Gironde—Marat—Danton and Camille—Clemency —disheartenment—Arthur Dillon—Camille undertakes his defence— The ..."

2. Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor (1891)
"THE DEGRADATION AND disheartenment OF COLUMBUS. 1500. COLUMBUS, writing to the Spanish sovereigns from Espanola, said, in reference to the lifelong ..."

3. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones by Georgiana Burne-Jones (1904)
"The mood of disheartenment will not last, but the pause in your work and the close examining of yourself may have an excellent ending. ..."

4. Publishers Weeklyby Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1902)
"The influence on men in such a business is serious, and no one with the common weal at heart would wish to profit by the disheartenment of another in this ..."

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