Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
2. (n.) Downcast or melancholy look.
3. (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
Greek
2726. katepheia -- dejection ... dejection. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: katepheia Phonetic Spelling:
(kat-ay'-fi-ah) Short Definition: a
downcast countenance, gloom
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2726.htm - 6k127. aidos -- a sense of shame
... Perhaps from a (as a negative particle) and eido (through the idea of downcast eyes);
bashfulness, ie (towards men), modesty or (towards God) awe -- reverence ...
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4659. skuthropos -- with a gloomy look
... 4659 (from , "gloomy" and , "countenance") -- properly, grim-faced, looking sad,
dejected (downcast, ); (figuratively) the that goes with doing God's will in ...
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Strong's Hebrew
7807. shach -- low, lowly... Word Origin from shachach Definition low, lowly NASB Word Usage humble person*
(1). humble. From shachach; sunk, ie
Downcast -- + humble. see HEBREW shachach.
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The Fifty-Seventh Chapter: a Man Should not be Too Downcast when ...
... BOOK THREE. INTERNAL CONSOLATION The Fifty-Seventh Chapter: A Man Should Not
Be Too Downcast When He Falls Into Defects. The Voice of Christ ...
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'Constrained by the Word'
... I. Let me ask you to look with me at the downcast Apostle. 'Downcast,' you
say; 'is not that an unworthy word to use about a minister ...
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Letter Xliv. To a Lapsed Monk.
... What cleric [2094] does not lament as he hears? What ecclesiastic does not beat
the breast? What layman is not downcast? What ascetic is not sad? ...
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Hymn for the Epiphany
... At length its flaming steps it stayed Poised over where the Child was laid: Straightway
with downcast mien it shed Its splendours on the sacred Head. ...
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Beauty for Ashes
... If the consolation of Israel himself comes forth for the uplifting of his downcast
people, then their doubts and fears may well fly apace, since his presence ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/beauty for ashes.htm
Colossians iv. 5, 6
... Be not downcast, and sour visaged, for this is offensive; nor yet be wholly relaxed,
for this is open to contempt and treading under foot; but, like the bee ...
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The Great Council
... A wild shock of hair overshadows his face, which is of a deathly pallor;
his eyes are usually downcast, owing to a weakness of sight. ...
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Prayer and Humility
... removed from anything which would take any credit for any good in himself, does
not presume to lift his eyes to heaven, but with downcast countenance smites ...
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For Though a Man Should be by no Means Greatly Advantaged by ...
... upright. [82] The souls of the wise, indeed, are sad and downcast, but those
of fools are elated, and given loose to merriment. And ...
/.../a metaphrase of the book of ecclesiastes/chapter vii for though a.htm
General Summary of the virtues and Effects of Patience.
... peaceful; her brow serene [9178] contracted by no wrinkle of sadness or of anger;
her eyebrows evenly relaxed in gladsome wise, with eyes downcast in humility ...
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Thesaurus
Downcast (11 Occurrences)... 1. (a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection,
or guilt. 2. (n.)
Downcast or melancholy look.
...Downcast (11 Occurrences).
.../d/downcast.htm - 9kDown (12601 Occurrences)
... 19. (vi) To go down; to descend. 20. (a.) Downcast; as, a down look. 21.
(a.) Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. 22. ...
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Downfall (46 Occurrences)
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Discourses (4 Occurrences)
... disciples, (WEY). Luke 24:17 And he said to them, What discourses are these which
pass between you as ye walk, and are downcast? (DBY). John ...
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Sad (73 Occurrences)
... or frivolous. 5. (superl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down
with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful. 6. (superl ...
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