Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-JEC'TION
DE-JEC'TION, n.
- A casting down; depression of mind; melancholy; lowness of spirits, occasioned by grief or misfortune. – Milton.
- Weakness; as, dejection of appetite. [Unusual.] – Arbuthnot.
- The act of voiding the excrements; or the matter ejected. – Ray.
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