Dispiritment

Full definition of dispiritment

Noun

1. Dispiritedness; disheartenment.
• 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 3, chapter XIII, DemocracyYou 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.