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Definition of Desponding
1. despond [v] - See also: despond
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desponding
Literary usage of Desponding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1903)
"... Evening at the Tuileries—Opening of the Legislative Chamber-Lord Cowley's
desponding Views—The Austrian Proposals—Bitterness in French Society—Necessity ..."
2. The Life and Times of Martin Van Buren: The Correspondence of His Friends by William Lyon Mackenzie (1846)
"VG, desponding, ELECTIONEERING, BRIBING AND BARGAINING. 23"? TO-ir sleep on mv
account. ... Marcy desponding—is terrified at the ..."
3. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1839)
"Slate of Lisbon—Embargo on the vessels in the river—Factious conduct of the
patriarch The desponding letters from the army—Base policy of the ministers ..."
4. The Popular History of England by Charles Knight (1880)
"His desponding letter.— Heights of Abraham.—Death of Wolfe.—Quebec surrendered.—Hawke's
victory in Quiberon li.iy.—Death of George the Second. ..."
5. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa by David Livingstone (1875)
"Livingstone becomes desponding. April 1st, 1871.—THE banks are well peopled, but
one must see the gathering at the market, of about three ..."
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