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dispirited, ppl. a.|dɪˈspɪrɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
†1. Deprived of its essential quality or vigour; destitute of spirit or animation, spiritless. Obs.
a1660Hammond Wks. IV. Pref. (R.), Religious offices..degenerating into heartless dispirited recitations. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Pall'd, Flat, Dispirited, or Dead Drink. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 111 The Blood becomes so viscid, poor, and dispirited. 1758Whitworth Acc. Russia 5 The Laplanders and Samoiedes being too heavy and dispirited.
2. Cast into or characterized by low spirits; discouraged, disheartened, dejected.
1647Trapp Comm. 1 Thess. v. 14 The dispirited, faint⁓hearted, sick and sinking. 1717Pope Let. to Blount 27 Nov., My Mother is in that dispirited State of Resignation. 1741Middleton Cicero II. xi. 437 A few unarmed, dispirited men. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxii. 290 He turned back and caught a glance at the dispirited faces behind him.
Hence diˈspiritedly adv.; diˈspiritedness.
1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 175 A defatigation and dispiritedness will accompany that oppression. 1673H. Stubbe Vind. Dutch War 4 The decay of Trade, the dispiritedness of the English. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ix. §3 (1734) 208 Opiates..when their Force is worn off..leave a Lowness, Dispiritedness, and Anxiety. 1864Webster, Dispiritedly. 1889Temple Bar Mag. Feb. 186, ‘I do not know’..said the lad dispiritedly. |