dejects

Nothing dejects an old building more than missed stop signs and nothing swings relationships harder than smashed favorites.

Lovely Blue Automobile Mike Lynch 2011

[1505] If it be impure and foggy, it dejects the spirits, and causeth diseases by infection of the heart, as Paulus hath it, lib.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Hierom notes, this common applause is a most violent thing, laudum placenta, a drum, fife, and trumpet cannot so animate; that fattens men, erects and dejects them in an instant.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And, in the midst of all my endeavours, there is but one thought that dejects me, that my acquired parts must perish with myself, nor can be legacied among my honoured friends.

Religio Medici 2007

As this system dejects farther to the east we begin to see the snow piling up in parts of Sierra, Nevada and Salt Lake City and back into parts of southwestern Colorado.

CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2007 2007

'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired, for sordes vitiant, nastiness defiles and dejects any man that is so voluntarily, or compelled by want, it dulleth the spirits.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

She is a brave woman, whom nothing dejects or disconcerts, which is the living proof that we are only valued according to the force and versatility of the inner consciousness.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

For tyrants, anxious to make those whom they punish wretched, keep executioners and torturers, and contrive branding-irons and other instruments of torture to inspire fear [309] in the brute soul, whereas vice attacks the soul without any such apparatus, and crushes and dejects it, and fills a man with sorrow, and lamentation, and melancholy, and remorse.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

For no debt so much as that of justice paid behind time damps the hopes and dejects the mind of the wronged person, and aggravates the audacity and daring of the wrong-doer; whereas the punishment that follows crime immediately not only checks future outbreaks but is also the greatest possible comfort to the injured.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Its business is the intensification of life, to bring home to us its myriad finenesses; it achieves this end by presenting persons passing through the intense experiences which we call passions; and these are conditions of the spirit in which an idealised object encourages, thwarts, or tantalises the seeker, and dejects him utterly if the reality turns out to be less than the ideal.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James