disheartenment
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The letter, titled "Authors for Libraries," expresses disheartenment about "the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association."
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2022
This extended also to its use in a continued fever where the same disheartenment was likely to occur with unfortunate consequences on the general condition and above all with disturbance of appetite and of sleep.
From Health Through Will Power by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Of the voyage itself you are more likely to have heard,—the voyage which lasted a few months, but to earn which the strong-hearted Genoese had borne nearly twenty years of disheartenment and opposition.
From The Spanish Pioneers by Charles F. Lummis
Thither the Count hastened to work off the disheartenment into which the comments of the Princess had thrown him.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Lewis Wallace
The Solitary Speaks.—In compensation for much disgust, disheartenment, boredom—such as a lonely life without friends, books, duties, and passions must involve—we enjoy those short spans of deep communion with ourselves and with Nature.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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