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/dɪdʒˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

Deject v. t. (past & past part. dejected; pres. part. dejecting)

To cast down. (Obs. or Archaic) "Christ dejected himself even unto the hells." "Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look."

To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. "Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind."

adjective

Deject adj. Dejected. (Obs.)

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"Deject" Quotes from Famous Books

... their life and wicked tempests, Verily they will become much worse than beasts, For now one would by envy another up eat; Charity they all do clean forget. I hoped well that every man In my glory should make his mansion, And thereto I had them all elect, But now I see that, like traitors deject, They thank me not for the pleasure that I to them meant, Nor yet for their being that I them have lent. I proffered the people great multitude of mercy, And few there be that asketh it heartily; They be so cumbered with ...

— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various

... indication of partiality and disaffection furnish ground for the expectation of an approaching change of system, I am sorry to say that all my labors will prove abortive; for the slightest causes will be sufficient to deject minds sore with the remembrance of past conflicts, and to elevate those whose only dependence is placed in the renewal of the confusion which I have labored with such zeal to eradicate, and will of course debilitate the authority which can alone insure future success. I almost fear that this ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.) • Edmund Burke

... and then the soul dwells in the best room indeed, even in the very heart of God in Christ. The Lord increase our faith in this precious truth, that we may the more love and glorify the God of grace and truth! O let not our venom of sin deject us, while there is the blood of Christ to cleanse us! O for a stronger love to Christ, and greater hatred of sin! Both spring from believing—(Mason). The emblem of the spider is illustrated in Bunyan's invaluable treatise on the Resurrection ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan