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1. A casting down; depression.
2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. "Adoration implies submission and dejection." (Bp. Pearson)
3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. "What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring." (Milton)
4. A low condition; weakness; inability. "A dejection of appetite." (Arbuthnot)
5. <physiology> The discharge of excrement. Faeces; excrement.
Origin: L. Dejectio a casting down: cf. F. Dejection.
(01 Mar 1998)
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