dejection

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈdʒɛkʃən/    美 /dəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues. countable,uncountable
  2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself. countable,uncountable
    — Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it.
  3. A low condition; weakness; inability. countable,uncountable
    — Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.
  4. Defecation or feces. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.

词形变化

dejections plural

词源

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.
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