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Definition of Despondency
1. Noun. Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless.
Generic synonyms: Depression
Derivative terms: Despond, Despondent, Despond, Despondent, Disconsolate, Heartsick, Heartsick
Definition of Despondency
1. n. The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
Definition of Despondency
1. Noun. The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection. ¹
2. Noun. A feeling of depression or disheartenment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despondency
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Despondency
Literary usage of Despondency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"The opposing designations HOPE and despondency signify phases of Belief. ...
The opposite of Hope is not Fear, but despondency, the belief in coming evil, ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"isoe-io] despondency in Great Britain. ' French troops. The colonial conquests
achieved by Great Britain served in part to redress the balance between the ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"No I. despondency.—A Reverie. My bosom filled with visions of decay ; 'TWAS ...
the sky Threw down the shadows of despondency,— To blast this lower world. ..."
4. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... Letters to his Daughters—Character of the late Session- Hamilton's Quietness—His
Plans and his despondency—Reasons of that despondency. ..."
5. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"National despondency. ther, that, if she could legally do it, she would dispense
in their favour with the statute for the limitation of usury. ..."
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