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Word Meanings - JAW-FALLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dejected; chopfallen.

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  • DEJECTION
    1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
  • DEJECTORY
    1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
  • DEJECTURE
    That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.
  • DEJECTLY
    Dejectedly.
  • DEJECTER
    One who casts down, or dejects.
  • DEJECTA
    Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
  • CHOPFALLEN
    Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.
  • DEJECT
    1. To cast down. Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall. Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller. 2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage;
  • DEJECTED
    Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance. -- De*ject"ed*ly, adv. -- De*ject"ed*ness, n.

 

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