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Definition of Dismayed
1. Adjective. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
Definition of Dismayed
1. Adjective. Having the emotion of dismay. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dismayed
1. dismay [v] - See also: dismay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dismayed
Literary usage of Dismayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"BE NOT dismayed ATTRIBUTED TO GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS Tr. ELIZABETH CHARLES BE not
dismayed, thou little flock, Although the foe's fierce battle-shock, ..."
2. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon, in by Philippe-Paul Ségur (1825)
"The officers who travelled post from the interior of France, to join it, arrived
dismayed. They could not conceive how it happened, that a victorious army, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... in the evolutions of irregular war; and the Northern Barbarians were astonished
and dismayed, by the inhuman ferocity of the Barbarians of the South. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"dismayed by the task which confronted him. Keiki gave in his resignation, 15
October, the Pescadores, pays an indemnity of 200000000 taels, ..."
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