Meanings of profound discouragement in English

For some time the poor young king sat in profound discouragement.

It is merely a mood-theresult of a profound discouragement.

An air of profound discouragement had fallen on them all.

He felt the certainty of it in profound discouragement.

The minister's shoulders drooped, and an expression of profound discouragement settled over his haggard face.

But after the note had been prepared and dispatched, profound discouragement reigned in the American hotel.

She suffered a profound discouragement.

He lowered his head despondently, and in a tone of profound discouragement, he replied: But what can I do?

So slight was the result of his labors, that at the end of twenty minutes he experienced a feeling of profound discouragement.

Weary with following the court about, it must have been with profound discouragement that Columbus heard of the success of Diaz in 1488.

In order to revive their spirits they tried discussions, and prescribed tasks for themselves, but speedily fell back into greater sluggishness, into more profound discouragement.

She was not only spiritually serene, she was humanly gay, and this in the face of acute ill-health, and many profound discouragements.

What disastrous doubts in the minds of others, what profound discouragements, what melancholy apostasies are induced by the faltering steps of the man of genius!