Fatigue and worry are succeeded by profound disheartenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

But Doris Clausen must have sensed his disheartenment and taken pity on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourth Hand]

What would prevent the beauty from seeing it also and preempting to herself the honors of his disheartenment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Sometimes waves of disheartenment came on cloudy days of testing, when the sun was hidden and life looked cheerless and hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Soprano] Reference

Worth remembering that any drop-off on election day will be almost entirely on the McCain side, as disheartenment takes hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Pew Poll Predicts Obama Will Win 52%-46%] Reference

The consequence was the most profound disheartenment, endured in silence, with the exquisite uncomplaining fortitude of a little child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

Turn more of those selfish interests into unselfish ones, and by so much we change opportunities for disheartenment into their opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference

Of course anything built on a foundation of lies is destined to crumble and that accounts for the disheartenment both in America and Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mutually Assured Survival Or Mutually-Assured Destruction?] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

Rather than being an indication of a psychological problem, disheartenment is simply thought of as a kind of forgetfulness: you've forgotten that, for good reason, you actually do believe in yourself and your path.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Piver: How to Be Disciplined] Reference

After a week's disheartenment she made a new beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference

Professor Marshall drew a great breath of disheartenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bent Twig] Reference

And so, my friends, I see no cause for despair or disheartenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln] Reference

It was in this deepest abyss in the valley of disheartenment that I met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Branded] Reference

He would never come across any but subjects of irritation or disheartenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Excellency the Minister] Reference

Sadness gives place to joy, despair to hope, and disheartenment to encouragement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

I truly empathise with your disheartenment, but sending 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan for.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyDD] Reference

Results which greatly contradicted the findings of FAIR, to the disheartenment of many bigots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

But though she showed alike her shame and her disheartenment, she did not give up the struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair] Reference

It was a disheartenment from which nothing in the future, no hope, no dream, could deliver him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Places] Reference

Long Walk Home and Last To Die also offer up Springsteen's disheartenment with his country's rulers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

Sick people ofttimes fall into a mood of disheartenment and self-pity which seriously retards their recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the Most of Life] Reference

"It must have been sore disheartenment," said Norman, pityingly, "to win nearly away, and then be brought back.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference

Thither the Count hastened to work off the disheartenment into which the comments of the Princess had thrown him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference

"And I've missed my apprenticeship!" said Desire, with changed voice and face, falling back into her disheartenment again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Folks] Reference

"Ain't nothin 'pleasant ter think of in er horspital," wailed John, the present disheartenment clouding over all past happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Primrose Ring] Reference

It was in this period of doubt and disheartenment that I turned to my little daughter with gratitude and a deep sense of the mystery of her coming.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

My performance was a failure, and to complete my disheartenment I reached the station about five minutes after the last eastern train had pulled out.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

Every word he uttered made more apparent to Cavanagh that Lee Virginia would derive nothing but pain and disheartenment from a knowledge that her father lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference

Another factor that worried them was the glumness and disheartenment that set in among foreign troops deployed in Afghanistan and 80% increase in desertion rate since 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Stories] Reference

It would be difficult to imagine a more amazing translation -- and yet, now that she was back in the midst of it, she gave no sign of the disheartenment she must have felt.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

As regards Mr. Shaw’s disheartenment at the thought of a revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weekly Review - Rural Economy: A Reply] Reference

And the opposite of disheartenment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Piver: How to Be Disciplined] Reference

Our disheartenment feeds their abusive power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics Inside and Outside the Matrix Revisited] Reference

But the disheartenment remained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price] Reference