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

Discouragement, which is after all by etymology only disheartenment, represents a serious effect upon the heart through depression.

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Her courageous toil had gone for nothing—her mother would never even know of it; and it seemed to her in that moment of deep disheartenment as if everything she tried was to be equally ineffectual.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah

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 Lummis, Charles F.

After a week's disheartenment she made a new beginning.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George