All 4 Uses of
dejected
in
Mansfield Park
- Till she had shed many tears over this deception, Fanny could not subdue her agitation; and the dejection which followed could only be relieved by the influence of fervent prayers for his happiness.†
Chpt 27 *
- Fanny, at once agitated and dejected, replied, "If you hear of it from everybody, cousin, there can be nothing for me to tell."†
Chpt 35
- It is your disposition to be easily dejected and to fancy difficulties greater than they are.†
Chpt 35
- Her dejection had no abatement from anything passing around her; a friend or two of her father's, as always happened if he was not with them, spent the long, long evening there; and from six o'clock till half-past nine, there was little intermission of noise or grog.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(dejected) sad and depressed (seemingly without hope)