The word 'dispirit' is a valid word in written English.
You can use it to describe the feeling of being discouraged or disheartened. Example: After hearing bad news, I felt completely dispirit.
They also see Benedict's role in the follow-up event as a dangerous lurch towards syncretism (the heretical idea of blending religions).Such disputes dispirit those who want the church to look outward and upward, not nitpick over the past.
Weak nations are being battered by austerity measures, which are certain to damp growth, dispirit the people and do little to bring them up to the performance profile of Germany, Mr. Singer writes.
S. Millett Thompson, of the 13th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, reported that "the bands are forbidden to play pathetic or plaintive tunes, such as Home, Sweet Home… Auld Lang Syne, etc., lest they serve to dispirit, and unnerve our suffering men".
Of course it is hard when you lose your job, but I don't want it to ever dispirit or show someone they cannot get there, because you can.
All kinds of nasty surprises lie in wait to frighten, dispirit and drain the promise from new writers, but I would like to believe that energy and talent and ingenuity and luck will see the words and humanity smuggled through there, too.
The continual uprooting would be enough to disorientate and dispirit even the most stable of minds.
A joke of a Senate hearing last week filled with lots of hot air, poor questions and no action will dispirit Ukrainian leaders even more.
He mopes, he sulks, he searches the Wyoming "lightscape" for "the souls of his father, and grandfather, and brother," whose long-ago deaths still dispirit him.
This dispirits those Democrats who yearned, after eight years of George Bush, for audacious change.
When they do, temporarily, find themselves in a clinic, the safety and order simply dispirits Hushpuppy, who says it looks like an empty fish tank – a remark that reminded me of the title of Andrea Arnold's British social realist film.
That this is the culture of a so-called developed nation further dispirits me when I am faced with descriptions of the systemic crimes against women in less-developed lands.
