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dispiritment

dispiritment noun: dispiritedness; disheartenment.

Noun

dispiritment (countable and uncountable, plural dispiritments)

  1. Dispiritedness; disheartenment.
    • You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; — and await, not entirely in a distracted manner, what the Supreme Powers, and the Silences and the Eternities may have to...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern...

Forms of dispiritment

pluraldispiritments

Origin of dispiritment

From dispirit + -ment.

Questions about dispiritment

What does dispiritment mean?
Dispiritment means dispiritedness; disheartenment.
What part of speech is dispiritment?
Dispiritment is a noun.
What is the plural of dispiritment?
The plural of dispiritment is dispiritments.

Words near dispiritment in the dictionary

  1. dispirited
  2. dispiritedly
  3. dispiritedness
  4. dispiriting
  5. dispiritingly
  6. dispiritment
  7. dispiritments
  8. dispirits
  9. dispirous
  10. dispise
  11. dispised

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