"dismaying" meaning in English

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        "Disheartening; daunting."
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          "text": "My dismayings utterly consume me: / They encompass me like water: / They press wholly upon me every day."
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        "A state of dismay."
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        "(archaic) A state of dismay."
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      "word": "dismayingly"
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