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Definition of Disheartenments
1. disheartenment [n] - See also: disheartenment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disheartenments
Literary usage of Disheartenments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"What would have been the effect of the same plainly indicated disheartenments,
evil influences, examples on one nature as compared with another? ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"Added to these disheartenments to the country, all the fluctuations of European
policy found, in some shape or other, ..."
3. Woman's Work in America by Annie Nathan Meyer (1891)
"But in face of all disheartenments, in 1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary was opened in
the beautiful Connecticut valley. The mode of living was for a time almost ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1845)
"Added to these disheartenments to the country, all the fluctuations of European
policy found, in some shape or other, a reflex here. ..."
5. Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-workers, Their Trades and Their Lives by Helen Campbell (1887)
"But in face of all disheartenments, in 1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary was opened in
the beautiful Connecticut valley. The mode of living was for a time almost ..."
6. The Teaching of Poetry in the High School by Arthur Henry Rolph Fairchild (1914)
"... to elevate morals, and to provide in later years an unfailing source of
consolation for the disappointments, the disheartenments, and the defeats ..."
7. What is There in Religion? by Henry Sloane Coffin (1922)
"The believer is not spared the strains and disheartenments of other men, and his
fellowship with Christ both immeasurably increases his sense of ..."