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dejection

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9 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/Part of speech nounSorted cdeeijnotStarts with DEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a state of melancholy depression

Word origin

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.

Used in a sentence

  • Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.
  • No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.
  • His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.

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