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By sympathizing effusively with those in trouble, she encouraged them in low-spiritedness; by lavishing alms, she weakened struggling poverty into pauperism.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham

Suppose for a moment you think through a list of the opposites of those nine characteristics—bitterness, envy, hate, low-spiritedness, sulkiness, chafing, fretting, worrying, short-suffering, quick-temper, hot-temper, high-spiritedness, unsteadiness, unreliability, lack of control of yourself.

From Quiet Talks on Power by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

There, do pray chase away this horrible low-spiritedness!

From The Sapphire Cross by Fenn, George Manville

He, however, has moments of very low-spiritedness, and becomes almost despondent in the moods.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

It was a glorious summer evening, and though he was in dirty, smoky Bristol, everything seemed to look bright and attractive, and to produce a sensation of low-spiritedness such as he had never felt before.

From The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens by Fenn, George Manville