All 4 Uses of
dejected
in
Jane Eyre
- The other teachers, poor things, were generally themselves too much dejected to attempt the task of cheering others.†
p. 72.4 *
- Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.†
p. 278.3
- If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay.†
p. 285.7
- At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence — after a day passed in honourable exertion amongst my scholars, an evening spent in drawing or reading contentedly alone — I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy — dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis;†
p. 423.4
Definition:
feeling sad, disappointed, or low in spirits -- especially after a loss or setback