Dispirit
[dɪ'spɪrɪt]
Definition
(v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
(v. t.) To distill or infuse the spirit of.
Typed by Kate
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Dishearten, depress, deject, discourage.
Checker: Victoria
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENCOURAGE]
Typist: Virginia
Definition
v.t. to dishearten: to discourage.—p.adj. Dispir′ited dejected: feeble spiritless.—adv. Dispir′itedly.—n. Dispir′itedness.—p.adj. Dispir′iting disheartening.—n. Dispir′itment.
Edited by Astor
Examples
- We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And Birkin, who, for some reason was now tired and dispirited, said to him: 'I always feel doomed when the train is running into London. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Herbert, coming to my bedside when he came in,--for I went straight to bed, dispirited and fatigued,--made the same report. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Slowly the weary, dispirited creatures, wound their way into the room, and, with crouching reluctance, presented their baskets to be weighed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Ginevra lived her full life in a ball-room; elsewhere she drooped dispirited. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For some time all the energies of the Prophet were concentrated upon rallying his followers, who were evidently much dispirited. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible, and therefore it only dispirited her more. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was a great happiness to get away after this dragging, dispiriting delay. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I wasted so much time praying that the roof would fall in on these dispiriting flunkies that I had but little left to bestow upon palace and pictures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Tess