All 7 Uses
dejected
in
The Aeneid
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- In mournful pomp the matrons walk the round, With baleful cypress and blue fillets crown'd, With eyes dejected, and with hair unbound.†
Book 3 *
- With eyes dejected, in a lowly tone, After a modest pause she thus begun: "'O only happy maid of Priam's race, Whom death deliver'd from the foes' embrace!†
Book 3
- Aeneas here beheld, of form divine, A godlike youth in glitt'ring armor shine, With great Marcellus keeping equal pace; But gloomy were his eyes, dejected was his face.†
Book 6
- Thin on the tow'rs they stand; and ev'n those few A feeble, fainting, and dejected crew.†
Book 10
- So many valiant heroes bite the ground; Dejected grief in ev'ry face appears; A town in mourning, and a land in tears; While he, th' undoubted author of our harms, The man who menaces the gods with arms, Yet, after all his boasts, forsook the fight, And sought his safety in ignoble flight.†
Book 11
- Slowly he moves, and at his altar stands With eyes dejected, and with trembling hands; And, while he mutters undistinguish'd pray'rs, A livid deadness in his cheeks appears.†
Book 12
- The Thund'rer said; And, with dejected eyes, this answer Juno made: "Because your dread decree too well I knew, From Turnus and from earth unwilling I withdrew.†
Book 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(dejected) feeling sad, disappointed, or low in spirits -- especially after a loss or setback
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)