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Dejection

//dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a state of melancholy depression wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of humbling or abasing oneself. countable, uncountable

    "Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it."

  4. 4
    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels wordnet
  5. 5
    A low condition; weakness; inability. countable, uncountable

    "Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution."

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  1. 6
    Defecation or feces. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine."

Etymology

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”).

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