Word Meanings - DISPIRITMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Depression of spirits; discouragement. Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.

Related words: (words related to DISPIRITMENT)

• WAITINGLY
  By waiting.
• EVIDENTIARY
  Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• WAIT-A-BIT
  Any of several plants bearing thorns or stiff hooked appendages, which catch and tear the clothing, as: The greenbrier. Any of various species of hawthorn. In South Africa, one of numerous acacias and mimosas. The grapple plant. The prickly ash.
• DISPIRITMENT
  Depression of spirits; discouragement. Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.
• EVIDENT
  Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident. Your honor and your goodness is so
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• DISTRESSING
  Causing distress; painful; unpleasant.
• WAITING
  a. & n. from Wait, v. In waiting, in attendance; as, lords in waiting. -- Waiting gentlewoman, a woman who waits upon a person of rank. -- Waiting maid, Waiting woman, a maid or woman who waits upon another as a personal servant.
• DISTRESS
  destrece, F. détresse, OF. destrecier to distress, LL. districtiare, fr. L. districtus, p. p. of distringere. See Distrain, 1. Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.
• EVIDENTIAL
  Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity. Bp. Fleetwood. "Evidential tracks." Earle.. -- Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv.
• EVIDENTLY
  In an evident manner; clearly; plainly. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth. Gal. iii. 1. He has evidently in the prime of youth. W. Irving.
• WAITER
  1. One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table. The waiters stand in ranks; the yeomen cry, "Make room," as if a duke were passing by. Swift. 2. A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes,
• DISTRESSFUL
  Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. "Some distressful stroke." Shak. "Distressful cries." Pope. -- Dis*tress"ful*ly, adv.
• WAIT
  watch, to wait for, fr. OHG. wahta a guard, watch, G. wacht, from 1. To watch; to observe; to take notice. "But ye wait well and be privy, I wot right well, I am but dead," quoth she. Chaucer. 2. To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain
• DISTRESSEDNESS
  A state of being distressed or greatly pained.
• CONCLUSION
  The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism. He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. Addison. 5. Drawing
• WAIT--WHILE
  One of the Australian wattle trees , so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes. = Wait-a-bit.
• EVIDENTNESS
  State of being evident.
• WAITRESS
  A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
• MISCONCLUSION
  An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.
• INEVIDENT
  Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure.
• TWAITE
  A European shad; -- called also twaite shad. See Shad.
• DUMB-WAITER
  A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.
• THWAITE
  The twaite.
• TIDEWAITER
  A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.
• SHAD-WAITER
  A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.
• LANDWAITER
  See A
• SELF-EVIDENT
  Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth. -- Self`-ev"i*dent*ly, adv.
• COUNTERWAIT
  To wait or watch for; to be on guard against. Chaucer.