Definition of "dispiritment" []

• Dispiritedness; disheartenment. (noun)

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• "Obama will be Jimmy Carter squared, including blaming Americans for the great dispiritment, and turning away in thought which will ensue following the rest of the world's cynical use of his dangerously naive ideas to our detriment."
• "The condition of peasant children, their sorrows and joys, their sports and bickerings -- the coarse insolence of the richer, the timid dispiritment of the needy, all stood in lively remembrance before his fancy, which liked to go back into that first and only period of his freedom, though, perhaps, also of his beggarhood."
• "Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus’s Romans, who “called it peace when they had made a desert."