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

What would prevent the beauty from seeing it also and preempting to herself the honors of his disheartenment?

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

Discouragement, which is after all by etymology only disheartenment, represents a serious effect upon the heart through depression.

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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 A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

It is through such doors of disheartenment that temptation finds its easiest entrance.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis