Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dejection

Dejection , noun

[Latin dejectio a casting down: compare French déjection.]

1.
A casting down; depression. [Obsolete or Archaic] — Hallywell
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. [Rare]
A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot
5.
(a) (Physiology) The discharge of excrement.
(b)
(Physiology) Faces; excrement. — Ray