Dispiritment

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Dispiritedness; disheartenment. countable, uncountable

    "You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; — and await, not entirely in a distracted manner, what the Supreme Powers, and the Silences and the Eternities may have to say to you."

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"You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; — and await, not entirely in a distracted manner, what the Supreme Powers, and the Silences and the Eternities may have to say to you."

Etymology

From dispirit + -ment.

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