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

What would prevent the beauty from seeing it also and preempting to herself the honors of his disheartenment?

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

It is through such doors of disheartenment that temptation finds its easiest entrance.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis

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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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 Grand, Sarah