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dispiritments

dispiritments is the plural of dispiritment.

Meaning of dispiritment

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...

Questions about dispiritments

What is dispiritments the plural of?
Dispiritments is the plural of dispiritment.

Words near dispiritments in the dictionary

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

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