different between dishearthen vs deject

English

From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”).

deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)

(transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 73,^[1]
  […] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.
- 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [2]
  On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.
(obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358,^[3]
  […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
To debase or humble.

deject (plural dejects)

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