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Definition of Despondencies
1. despondency [n] - See also: despondency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despondencies
Literary usage of Despondencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in the South from the Commencement of the War: Being a Social History by Catherine Cooper Hopley (1863)
"... CHAPTER HL despondencies—A Disconsolate Journey—Relentless Sufferings —An
Invigorating Change—The Walk to the College—Several Prospects for the ..."
2. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Churchby John Chrysostom, Augustine by John Chrysostom, Augustine (1908)
"But if ye are not willing, for these reasons, to abstain; at least on account of
the despondencies which come of it, and the vexations, do ye abstain. ..."