Definition of "low-spiritedness" []

• A state of depression; dejection of mind. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "By sympathizing effusively with those in trouble, she encouraged them in low-spiritedness; by lavishing alms, she weakened struggling poverty into pauperism."
• "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 receive unreservedly his declarations: and now indeed I am more in his power than ever."
• "He upbraids him with his present low-spiritedness, v. 5."