disanimationn.

1637 J. Elborow Euodias & Syntyche 18 Those runners after the persons of men, that run disorderly from their owne minister (to his no little disanimation) unto other parishes, to heare some Allobrogicall disciplinarian.

1681 ‘Philopatris’ Plot in Dream i. 7 Dreadfully did these words sound in the Ears of the poor trembling Petropolitans, who needed no other disanimation than their own fears.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Disanimation, the act of discouraging; depression of spirits.

1851 T. W. Wilson Authentic Narr. Piratical Descents upon Cuba 38 The disanimation felt by the men..was increased to the utmost, when they were attacked by the troops.

1873 Rep. Brit. Trade Abroad i. 111 in Parl. Papers (C. 737) LXVII. 1 The tonnage dues referred to have caused some disanimation in commerce.

1927 Rhodesian Ann. 157/2 The past two wet seasons have, however, together with the rapid fall in price of cotton, caused..a certain amount of disanimation with regard to this crop.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. x. 128 Affections which depend on life, and depart upon disanimation . View more context for this quotation

1680 B. Nanfan Ess. Divine & Moral ii. 51 A short Requiem did that Noble Heathen sing to the soul of his endeared son (upon the news of his disanimation).

1798 A. Simpson Let. 4 Feb. in W. Brodum Guide to Old Age (1799) 204 The physicians of this place were sent for, who prescribed for me to no purpose; my disanimation was expected daily.

1819 J. Watkins Mem. Sophia-Charlotte, Queen Great Brit. xxviii. 549 The idea that disanimation had taken place became thus irrevocably fixed.

1991 Res. in Afr. Lit. 22 81 La Guma examines the degradation of human beings by juxtaposing two sets of metaphors: metaphors of death, disanimation, and decay.

2015 M. Fritz-Morkin tr. P. Bertetto in J. McElhaney Compan. to F. Lang (new ed.) xxi. 398 Instead of the animation of the inorganic, here we have the substitution of a disanimation of the organic.