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chagrin

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Noun — A distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, a want of appreciation, mistakes, etc.; vexation or mortification.

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From French chagrin (“sorrow”), from Middle French chagrin (“pain, affliction”) (compare Middle French chagriner, chagrigner (“to experience sorrow”), Old French chagrin (“painful, afflicted”)), probably derived from Old Northern French chagreiner, chagraigner (“to sadden”), of uncertain origin. Likely an enlargement o...

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