Despond
[di'spɒnd]
Definition
(verb.) lose confidence or hope; become dejected; 'The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
(n.) Despondency.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Despair, be cast down, be disheartened, lose hope, lose courage, be despondent, give up, abandon hope.
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Definition
v.i. to lose hope or courage: to despair.—ns. Despond′ence Despond′ency state of being without hope: dejection.—adj. Despond′ent desponding: without courage or hope: sad.—advs. Despond′ently; Despond′ingly.
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Examples
- My search was utterly vain, yet I did not despond. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We were in the Slough of Despond tonight, and Mother came and pulled us out as Help did in the book. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Don't despond, said Carton, very gently; don't grieve. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The name of the slough was Despond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not her father's desponding attitude had power to damp her now. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I wonder the writs haven't followed me down here, Rawdon continued, still desponding. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He and Mrs. Weston were both dreadfully desponding. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And as for the vague something--was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At last he stopped right opposite to Margaret, and looked at her drooping and desponding attitude for an instant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry--then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He still seemed to me most absurd when he obstinately doubted, and desponded about his power to win in the end Miss Fanshawe's preference. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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