Meaning of dismayful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Terrifying
   obsolete
2. Dismaying; disheartening.
   obsolete
3. Dismayed; full of disappointment or low spirits.
   obsolete

Examples

“And much dismay'd with that dismayful Sight, That back she would have⟳ turn'd for great Affright”

“O let⟳ despair Haunt unbless'd souls; let⟳ its dismayful looks Affright not thee, thou source of clearest hope⟳, Which in one stream thro' earthly dullness flows Into this glad receptacle, the heart.”

“Add⟳ to this that—thought of all most dismayful!—he had himself to convince⟳ first, the worst dragon of all to kill⟳, for bare honesty's sake, in his own⟳ field; while, all the time he was arming and fighting — like⟳ the waves of the flowing tide in a sou'-wester, Sunday came in upon Sunday, roaring on his flat, defenceless shore,”

“I, myself, have⟳ observed—and I dare say⟳ it is within the experience⟳ of many here present⟳ to affirm the like⟳—a man of that large experience⟳ which pertains to years of practice, boldly invade the uterine cavity with the sound⟳, twisting it hither and yon with a force⟳ and careless abandon to its possible consequences, that not only utterly amazed me at the time, but which, on reflection afterwards, brought a shudder of horror and a dismayful foreboding as to the resultant mischief which had already been produced, or which it were likely to cause.”

“The most unvaluable and dismayful loss of my most dear and heroical Patron, Prince Henry, hath so stricken all my spirits to the earth, that I will never more dare to look⟳ up to any greatness; but resolving the little rest⟳ of my poor life to obscurity, and the shadow of his death, prepare⟳ ever heareafter for the light⟳ of Heaven.”

“Engrossed in the rich, transparent beauty, pathos, and wisdom of Virgil, and the living rhetoric of Cicero's elaborate pleadings, as well as those other classic writers of antiquity, who, amidst outward barbarism, darkness, and dismayful ignorance, then brought to the student's lonely heart the solemnized civilization of the past, the light⟳, fragrance, and magic of genius, and the hope⟳ of a time coming to him, too, when the world shall listen⟳ to his voice, and he may win⟳ admiration, or draw⟳ tears, by the out-throwing of his thoughts—Luther invigorated his spirit by his student toils, enriched his mind⟳ by the noble sayings, and graphic images, of orator and poet, and fed his ambition for the attainment of the marvellous faculty of power, which literary culture gives, by training his unworn and tender youth—"To scorn delights, and live⟳ laborious days;"”

“No announcement could have⟳ been more dismayful; but this time Matilda said nothing.”

“But that is a dismayful expectation to entertain concerning the 'I,' the 'ego' —the ens unum et semper cognitum in omnibus notitiis— of which they thus protest⟳ we have⟳ more or less clear consciousness in every exercise of intelligence.”

“But as the signs that day were different from what they had been at any former time when this adventure had been essayed, the city itself was overspread with so thick and black a cloud, and filled with sounds so dolorous and dismayful, that no one had either judgment so free, or heart so strong, as to be exempt from the fear which these terrors occasioned.”

“and then to realise⟳, at the last⟳ solemn account, an utter, hopeless, dismayful disappointment, and to find⟳, that of his vast benefactions, by intellectual mastery, to the world, he has himself saved nothing; that whilst gaining the admiration of the whole world, he has lost his own⟳ soul!”

“"Boots?" —said his mother, in an accent that sounded a little dismayful.”

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