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Definition of Low-spiritedness
1. Noun. A feeling of low spirits. "He felt responsible for her lowness of spirits"
Generic synonyms: Sadness, Unhappiness
Derivative terms: Dispirited, Dispirited, Downhearted, Low-spirited, Low, Low
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-spiritedness
Literary usage of Low-spiritedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"low-spiritedness. DEJECTION. MELANCHOLY. low-spiritedness is a common name, both
for the dejection caused hy misfortune and for the melancholy which is the ..."
2. Russia and Its Crisis by Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov (1906)
"The "low-spiritedness" of those people made them sustain the right of the first
pretender, if only he was supposed to represent the popular program. ..."
3. Clinical Therapeutics by Temple S. Hoyne (1878)
"... being left alone ; low spiritedness ; thirst at night ; hungry but soon
satisfied ; constipation ; sexual desire and power gone. ..."
4. An English and Welsh Dictionary: Wherein, Not Only the Words, But Also, the by John Walters (1828)
"low-spiritedness. See Dejected ness. Mean-spirited. >SVc Mean or mean-spirited,
under M. Public spirit, *c. .SVc under P. Spiritedness, s. ..."
5. The Works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., First Pastor of the Church in Bethlem, Conn. by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1853)
"rest of the world, to be his peculiar people : — I say, while we are conscious
to this low spiritedness, to this mean, narrow, selfish temper, ..."
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