dispiritment
English
Etymology
dispirit + -ment
Noun
dispiritment (countable and uncountable, plural dispiritments)
- Dispiritedness; disheartenment.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy
- 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 say to you.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XIII, Democracy