Dejection

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio ("a casting down").

Full definition of dejection

(plural dejections)

a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
The act of humbling or abasing oneself.Adoration implies submission and dejection. — Bishop Pearson.
A low condition; weakness; inability.A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
(medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.

1855, Austin Flint, Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases, No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.
1861, James Jackson, Another Letter to a Young Physician, His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.
1921, Charles Signmund Raue, Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment, Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration.