A feeling of depression or disheartenment.
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Examples for "despondency "
1 Yet there are more reasons for hope than despondency , writes Martin Mansergh.
2 The despondency and suffering were extreme; and the marshal had Cavalier sounded.
3 There was expression enough in his voice now; expression of utter despondency .
4 Kate set aside her own despondency to render gratitude for sympathy received.
5 After all the excitement her mother was in a fit of despondency .
1 He told about loneliness and heartsickness and misery in the orphan asylum.
2 Only the physical pains and weariness, and the heartsickness abided with him.
3 She had been ill for one thing- acombinationof seasickness and heartsickness .
4 If you can recognize heartsickness , then you will see it there, in his face.
5 Marie watched, and the heartsickness within him was like a physical pain, keen and bitter.
1 At length, with almost a ludicrous aspect of disconsolateness , they slowly retired into the forest.
2 Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness , "I'm miserable!"
3 His look bespoke the unquietness of his mind, and frequently wandered with an expression of disconsolateness and anxiety.
4 "He's there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness . "
5 "She didn't cry," reported the mother, with a disconsolateness that did not agree with the cheering words of the reports.
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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