Dejection

n.	1.	A casting down; depression.
	2.	The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. - Bp. Pearson.
	3.	Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring. - Milton.
	4.	A low condition; weakness; inability. A dejection of appetite. - Arbuthnot.
	5.	(Physiol.) The discharge of excrement.

Noun	1.	dejection - a state of melancholy depression
	2.	dejection - solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels Synonyms: BM, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool

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