| 单词 | lowness of spirits |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslowness of spirits 6. The fact of feeling mentally or physically low (low adj. 16a, 16b); depression, melancholy, fatigue, weakness. Frequently in lowness of spirits. Now somewhat archaic. 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 1639 F. B. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Coll. Mod. Epist. IV. 22 These..thoughts..spring from lownesse of spirit; into which I am apt to fall, as soone as I have lost the sight of you. 1695 J. Kettlewell Death made Comfortable ii. 16 These new doubts and suspicions are to be looked on by the Sick Man..as Temptations, and an advantage taken of his present feebleness and lowness of spirit. 1739 J. Wesley Jrnl. 12 July (1830) I. 210 I went to a gentleman who is much troubled with what they call lowness of spirits. 1782 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 1 72 She had..a small quick pulse, with great lowness. 1788 Med. Communications 2 182 The Rose, or Erysipelas of the extremities, is commonly preceded by lowness. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. xi. 232 She had to struggle against a great tendency to lowness . View more context for this quotation 1842 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 3 106/1 After any temporary interruption to the use of it [sc. laudanum], her reason for resuming it was the lowness she suffered in its absence; the feelings were lowness, downright illness, cold sweats, loss of memory, difficulty of speech. 1879 Scribner's Monthly July 473/1 All ills that have their origin in lowness of spirits. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 568/1 Many of the complaints of nervous depression, lowness, and worry are really due to gout. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession x. 170 Both my dear friend and I have been somewhat afflicted with a slight feaver [sic] and consequent lowness of spirits. 2011 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 27 Mar. Those symptoms include prolonged lowness, sadness or anger, tiredness and loss of enjoyment of life. < as lemmas |
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