dejection
nounUK /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/ · US /dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
Etymology From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.
1
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.1659, Bishop John Pearson, An Exposition of the Creed:
3
A low condition; weakness; inability.
- Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies:
- No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.1855, Austin Flint, Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases, Linday & Blakiston, First Clinical Report on Continued Fever, Based on an Analysis of Forty-Two Cases, page 39:
- 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.1861, James Jackson, Another Letter to a Young Physician, Applewood Books, published 2010, →ISBN, Note I. John Lowell, page 103:
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- 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.1921, Charles Signmund Raue, Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment, 2nd edition, B. Jain Publishers, published 2000, →ISBN, Chapter IX Diseases of the Intestines, pages 205–206: