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Meanings of despondence in English

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A feeling of depression or disheartenment.

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        I had seen him lost before, but this despondence was something new.
        What is the what: the autobiography of valentino achak deng
        2
        Through the afternoon it rained: the gloomy sky intensified his fatigue and despondence.
        Eve's Ransom
        3
        He looked at the ruin with mournful despondence, with quivering lips.
        The Last of the Barons — Volume 03
        4
        My fits of despondence were deeper, and of more frequent recurrence.
        Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
        5
        The occupied mind, however acute its sensibility, rarely sinks into despondence.
        The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
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        But no, my Edwin, let us not give way to despondence.
        Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
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        I smiled at the despondence in her tone as I extinguished the kerosene lamp-light.
        Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
        8
        Does gloomy despondence bespeak a higher degree of social virtue?
        The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
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        He looked up, despondence inscribed upon his once-jovial features.
        A conspiracy of paper: a novel
        10
        Yet there is no good in despondence: vigilance and activity often effect more than was expected.
        The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
        11
        Out of this mood of despondence I had to lift myself by an act of will.
        Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Pr...
        12
        I combated his despondence, and assured him of triumph if he would persevere in a literary career.
        Nathaniel Hawthorne
        13
        Universal despondence now pervaded the whole house.
        The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
        14
        He seemed to have left his despondence, like a heavy weight, at the bottom of the river.
        The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
        15
        But, notwithstanding his declaration of despondence on this head, his imagination involuntarily teemed with more agreeable ideas.
        The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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        In a third she was walking into Clarice's house, an expression of utter despondence on her face.
        Seven Minutes in Heaven
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