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despondency
/dɪˈspɑndənsi/
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What does despondency mean?
noun
- The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.
- A feeling of depression or disheartenment.
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IPA pronunciation
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“Oh, that would not do—that would be worse than anything,” she said with a more childlike despondency, while the tears rolled down.
This disastrous event did not produce like despondency in our partisan or his followers, though it furnished reasons for the greatest circumspection.
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Sholte, the fat Russian boy, who lived for his stomach, was to be disappointed in love, grow thin, and shoot himself from despondency.
With a chill despondency, like one awakening, all nerveless, from an ugly dream, he yielded himself to the physician, and was led away.
For married persons to dream that they are single, foretells that their union will not be harmonious, and constant despondency will confront them.