All 3 Uses of
dejected
in
Frankenstein
- But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.†
Chpt Intr.
- They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.†
Chpt 15 *
- He was forever busy, and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mind.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(dejected) sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)