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Meanings of downheartedness in English

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desànim

A feeling of low spirits.

        desànim
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        Examples for "lowness"
        Examples for "lowness"
        1
        All the known evidence points to the extraordinary lowness of the earthquake-sound.
        A Study of Recent Earthquakes
        2
        There are two reasons for the lowness of interest in any country.
        The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 / Historical...
        3
        What a curious fact you state about distribution and lowness going together.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
        4
        But the lowness of the roof may have some compensating advantages.
        Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
        5
        A singular depression and lowness of spirit showed itself on the boys' faces.
        The Hill of Dreams
        1
        There was an odd meekness and dejectedness in her manner.
        By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
        2
        With a dejectedness to which it is possible that his headache contributed he put the matter squarely to himself.
        Piccadilly Jim
        3
        His tone was serious, there was a dejectedness in his manner, and with it, as was evident, much smothered emotion in his heart.
        The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
        1
        The lethargy and dispiritedness, caused by their week of inaction, fell from them like a cloak.
        The Adventures of Sally
        2
        Lured by his dispiritedness, or so Arthas gleaned by eavesdropping, the guards had grown lax in their care of him.
        Arthas: rise of the lich king
        3
        The removal of day-to-day freedoms that have been part of our lives since birth are frustrating and conducive to dispiritedness and even anger.
        Independent.ie
        1
        By sympathizing effusively with those in trouble, she encouraged them in low-spiritedness; by lavishing alms, she weakened struggling poverty into pauperism.
        The Second Generation
        Usage of downheartedness in English
        1
        Mr. Hardy's love-poems belong to the literature of downheartedness.
        Old and New Masters
        2
        Hussey, with his cheeriness and his banjo, was another vital factor in chasing away any tendency to downheartedness.
        South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
        3
        "Well," said the colonel, "there is no need for too much downheartedness on that score.
        The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for downheartedness
        Downheartedness through the time