dejection

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEJECTION, noun 1. A casting down; depression of mind; melancholy; lowness of spirits, occasioned by grief or misfortune. 2. Weakness; as dejection of appetite. 3. The act of voiding the excrements; or the matter ejected.
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