dejectednessn.
/dɪˈdʒɛktɪdnɪs/ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun] > humiliated condition
powderc1300
dusta1340
abjection?a1425
abasement1567
abjectness1574
dejectedness1608
abjectedness1660
crestfallenness1859
1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices i. 27 No man sets so low a value of his worth as himselfe, not out of ignorance..but of a voluntarie and meeke deiectednesse.
1646 W. Jenkyn Reformation's Remora 15 Lownes and dejectednes of estate.
1721 R. Keith tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquy of Soul iv, in tr. Thomas à Kempis Select Pieces II. 139 Behold, O Lord, the Dejectedness of my State.
2. The state of being downcast or depressed in spirits.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun]
unlustOE
sorrowfulnessa1250
heavinessc1275
elengenessec1320
dullnessc1369
tristourc1380
murknessc1390
tristesse1390
faintness1398
ungladnessa1400
droopingc1400
heavity14..
dejectionc1450
terne?a1513
disconsolation1515
descence1526
marea1529
sadness?1537
dumpishness1548
unblessedness1549
dolorousness1553
ruefulness?1574
dolefulness1586
heartlessness1591
languishment1591
mopishness1598
soul-sickness1603
contristation1605
damp1606
gloominess1607
sableness1607
uncheerfulnessa1617
disconsolateness1624
cheerlessnessa1631
dejectedness1633
droopingness1635
disanimation1637
lowness1639
desponsion1641
disconsolacy1646
despondency1653
dispiritedness1654
chagrin1656
demission1656
jawfall1660
weightedness1660
depression1665
disconsolancy1665
grumness1675
despondence1676
despond1678
disheartenednessa1680
glumness1727
low1727
gloom1744
low-spiritedness1754
blue devils1756
black dog1776
humdudgeon1785
blue devilism1787
dispiritude1797
wishtnessc1800
downheartedness1801
blue-devilage1816
dispiritment1827
downcastness1827
depressiveness1832
dolorosity1835
lugubriosity1840
disconsolance1847
down1856
heavy-heartedness1860
lugubriousness1879
sullenness1885
low key1886
melancholia1896
burn-out1903
mokus1924
downness1927
mopiness1927
deflation1933
wallow1934
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 88 An heart full of dejectednesse and dismay.
c1740 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 13 The dejectedness of my mother's spirits.
1884 Manch. Examiner 29 Nov. 5/3 The same spirit of..dejectedness which marks the long-suffering Cockney.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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