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n. - A feeling of low spirits.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Adjective : He is feeling rather low-spirited today
  • 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...
  • He upbraids him with his present low-spiritedness, v. 5.
  • By sympathizing effusively with those in trouble, she encouraged them in low-spiritedness; by lavishing alms, she weakened struggling poverty into pauperism.
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