dispiritment

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noun

Dispiritedness; disheartenment.

OriginEnglish dispirit ← Middle English spirit ← Old French espirit →
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Meanings

noundispiritment (countable and uncountable, plural dispiritments)

plural dispiritments

  1. countableuncountableDispiritedness; disheartenment.
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    You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; — and await, not entirely in a distracted manner, what the Supreme Powers, and the Silences and the Eternities may have to say to you.

    1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker)

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Old Frenchdes-
  7. Latindis-
  8. Middle Englishdis-
  9. Englishdis-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
  11. Latinspīrō
  12. Latinspīritu
  13. Old Frenchespirit
  14. Middle Englishspirit
  15. Englishspirit
  16. Englishdispirit
  17. Englishdispiritment

From dispirit + -ment.

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APA

dispiritment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispiritment

MLA

“dispiritment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispiritment. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dispiritment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dispiritment.

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