All 3 Uses of
dejected
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- 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.†
p. 19.4
- 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.†
p. 130.9 *
- He was forever busy, and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mind.†
p. 164.1
Definition:
feeling sad, disappointed, or low in spirits -- especially after a loss or setback