A feeling of depression or disheartenment.
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Examples for "despondence "
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 .
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 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 .
6 For some minutes they stood gazing in silent despondency at the sea.
7 By the time I got home my despondency was hard to disguise.
8 She sat gazing idly at the sky, in sheer despondency and weariness.
9 Lyra heard these tales at first with glee and later with despondency .
10 When he resumed, it was once more in a tone of despondency .
11 They don't want to create alarm and despondency until they've got to.
12 Then he added, in deep despondency : But it is of no use.
13 The labour, towards the conclusion, became so intolerable as to incite despondency .
14 The hopes of the most sanguine were now fast sinking into despondency .
15 In the long silence which followed, Orsino relapsed into his former despondency .
16 No longer petulant or impatient, he appeared sunk in the deepest despondency .
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