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dejection

noun
/dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/UK/dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/US

Etymology

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.

  1. derived from dejectio — “a casting down”
  2. derived from dejection

Definitions

  1. A state of melancholy or depression

    A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.

  2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.

    • Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it.

  3. A low condition

    A low condition; weakness; inability.

    • Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Defecation or feces.

      • No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.
      • His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.
      • Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA