dejectedness

• We had stepped very cautiously, and therefore very slowly; had warned each other continually to be careful; and had not dared to take twenty steps at a time, without mutually enquiring to know if all were safe We continued, environed as it were by the objects that most powerfully inspire fear; by the darkness of night, the tumult of the elements, the utter ignorance of where we were or by what objects surrounded, and the dejectedness which our situation inspired. —  The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
• This maid of the world, who could endure hardships and loss of society for the mistress to whom she was attached, no sooner saw herself surrounded by the comforts befitting her station, than she indulged in the luxury of a wailful dejectedness, the better to appreciate them. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• With a dejectedness to which it is possible that his headache contributed he put the matter squarely to himself. —  Piccadilly Jim
• Thus is explained the dejectedness of Fleur-de-Marie, although she expected at any moment to leave Saint Lazare. —  Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02
• She had come out of her dejectedness with a shrewder view of Dacier; equally painful, for it killed her romance, and changed the garden of their companionship in imagination to a waste. —  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5

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