low-spiritedness

I must acquaint you that his kind behaviour, and my low-spiritedness, co-operating with your former advice, and my unhappy situation, made me that very Sunday evening receive unreservedly his declarations: and now indeed I am more in his power than ever.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

By sympathizing effusively with those in trouble, she encouraged them in low-spiritedness; by lavishing alms, she weakened struggling poverty into pauperism.

The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889

I must acquaint you that his kind behaviour, and my low-spiritedness, co-operating with your former advice, and my unhappy situation, made me that very Sunday evening receive unreservedly his declarations: and now indeed I am more in his power than ever.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

He upbraids him with his present low-spiritedness, v. 5.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

-- if I, an English person, have been so deeply afflicted, that even this sweet house and society -- even my Susan and her lovely children -- have been incapable to give me any species of pleasure, or keep me from a desponding low-spiritedness, what must be the feelings of all but the culprits in France?

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

a sensation of low-spiritedness such as he had never felt before.

The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens George Manville Fenn 1870