dejection — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

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

   Gebrauch

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   Synonyme

   despondencydownheartednesscrestfallenness

2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.

   Gebrauch

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   Synonyme

   abasementhumiliationsubmission

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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; weakness; inability.

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   Synonyme

   dearthwant

   Beispiele

   Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.

4. Defecation or feces.

   Gebrauch

   • archaisch
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   Synonyme

   excrementbowel movement

   Beispiele

   No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   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.

Substantiv

1. a state of melancholy depression

   Oberbegriffe

   depression

2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

   Synonyme

   fecal matterfaecal matterfecesfaecesBMstoolordure

   Oberbegriffe

   body wasteexcretionexcretaexcrementexcretory product