disheartenment
Example Sentences
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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
The consequence was the most profound disheartenment, endured in silence, with the exquisite uncomplaining fortitude of a little child.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand
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 limitations of anesthesia, though there was much more of this aid than there has commonly been any idea of, and the frequent occurrence of suppuration must have been constant sources of disheartenment.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
After a week's disheartenment she made a new beginning.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
