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Definition of Dispirits
1. dispirit [v] - See also: dispirit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispirits
Literary usage of Dispirits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Short comments on every chapter of the holy Bible (1838)
"If God do not rule us, our enemies shall : guilt dispirits men, and makes them
cowards.—Ahab became desperate. Men will part with their most pleasant things ..."
2. For the Oracles of God, Four Orations: Four Orations. For Judgment to Come by Edward Irving (1823)
"It dispirits me while I undertake to write, to think how much better the subject
hath been written before, and how darkness triumphs over all the light ..."
3. GTropología: a key to open Scripture metaphors [by B. Keach and T. Delaune by Benjamin Keach (1858)
"God, the Strong Tower, not only inspires courage and spirit, to those that his
soldiers with true valour and courage, to set are in it ; so it dispirits and ..."
4. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"<) Sometimes, when he grants them understanding, he so terrifies and dispirits
them, that they can neither determine nor undertake what they have conceived. ..."
5. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"You have given an invitation to the enemy, and have discovered a timidity that
dispirits our friends. A good face among men in power keeps up the spirits of ..."
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