disheartenment

Example Sentences

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The letter, titled "Authors for Libraries," expresses disheartenment about "the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the Association of American Publishers and the Publishers Association."

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022

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 168 lived.

From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin

Turn more of those selfish interests into unselfish ones, and by so much we change opportunities for disheartenment into their opposite.

From For Auld Lang Syne by Woodward, Ray

Sadness gives place to joy, despair to hope, and disheartenment to encouragement.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

Elijah, for example, in a season of disheartenment and despondency, gave it as part of the exceptional burden of his life that he was the only one in the field for God.

From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)