dispirited
Speech parts
1. dispirited - Adjective
2. dispirited - Verb
4. dispirited - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Dispirit
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.
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Examples
In order to know the worth of a virtuous husband, is it not necessary for the wife to be dispirited herself? First, give her a young man of twenty, and not only will she be fine, she'll have a reasonable husband.
His Armies, weakened by defeat and defeat, dispirited by misfortune, had unlearned - under beaten generals - that warlike impetuosity which as it is the consequence, so it is the guarentee of success.
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
It is during the pursuit, when the beaten enemy is still dispirited and disorganised, that most prisoners are made and most booty captured.
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
Beggars are a sure indicator that there are no Christians, or else very few and dispirited ones, in any town in which beggars are seen.