A feeling of depression or disheartenment.
1 I had seen him lost before, but this despondence was something new.
2 Through the afternoon it rained: the gloomy sky intensified his fatigue and despondence .
3 He looked at the ruin with mournful despondence , with quivering lips.
4 My fits of despondence were deeper, and of more frequent recurrence.
5 The occupied mind, however acute its sensibility, rarely sinks into despondence .
6 But no, my Edwin, let us not give way to despondence .
7 I smiled at the despondence in her tone as I extinguished the kerosene lamp-light.
8 Does gloomy despondence bespeak a higher degree of social virtue?
9 He looked up, despondence inscribed upon his once-jovial features.
10 Yet there is no good in despondence : vigilance and activity often effect more than was expected.
11 Out of this mood of despondence I had to lift myself by an act of will.
12 I combated his despondence , and assured him of triumph if he would persevere in a literary career.
13 Universal despondence now pervaded the whole house.
14 He seemed to have left his despondence , like a heavy weight, at the bottom of the river.
15 But, notwithstanding his declaration of despondence on this head, his imagination involuntarily teemed with more agreeable ideas.
16 In a third she was walking into Clarice's house, an expression of utter despondence on her face.
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