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despondency

[dih-spon-duhn-see]

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noun

state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection.

Also, de·spond·ence.

Origin:
1645–55; despond + -ency

Related forms

pre·de·spond·en·cy, noun

Synonyms
melancholy, gloom. See despair.

Antonyms
joy.

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Example Sentences

Disaster had succeeded disaster in rapid succession and despondency prevailed among the patriots everywhere.

Despondency has become a big theme in the campaign for the federal presidency.

Despondency brought on by drink was the cause of the deed.

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Disaster had succeeded disaster in rapid succession and despondency prevailed among the patriots everywhere.

Despondency has become a big theme in the campaign for the federal presidency.

Despondency brought on by drink was the cause of the deed.

The decade of despondency that many predicted now seems unlikely to materialise.

Illness and despondency over financial matters are believed to have caused the act.

Cue for alarm and despondency on both sides of the aisle.

Despondency superinduced by family troubles and debt is given as the cause.

So politicians ought to think twice about spreading despondency.

His act was caused probably by a fit of despondency brought on by intemperance and unhappiness in his domestic life.

Two war games run recently by academics add to the despondency.

In this he gives as a reason for his act, despondency over continued ill-health and separation from his, friends.

With growing despondency at home, it is perhaps surprising that unrest has not broken out.

The resolute spirit of the people soon rose superior to the temporary despondency naturally resulting from these reverses.

Poverty and economic misery breeds despondency and depression.

Reta finished her thought with an exaggerated expression of despondency.

Look for suicide attempts or other evidence of despondency.

He had made attempts upon his life before, and was subject to fits of despondency akin to insanity.

Irrational despondency can lead to overpricing risk and underpricing real estate.

DeMarinis tends to depict male protagonists who are unable to shake a sense of despondency.

Your enthusiasm for work is waning and you know that your despondency is affecting your performance.

Binx's despondency is more than mere laziness but less than real sickness.

Simpson got to know them, the poets who later made despondency and madness their dominant motif were almost gay.

Just when despondency weighs on their hearts, some corporate executives say, somebody comes along to warm them.

The inevitable despondency at its failure to transform the lot of the aam admi has therefore been slower to set.

Friends and neighbors said they had not noticed any recent mood change or despondency in the young man, the detective said.

Fearful that his father will never appear, the boy scuffles about outdoors by himself, his face clenched in fear and despondency.

Four days in and a sense of dejection and despondency is seeping through the halls.

It was one in a continuous series of gloom, doom and despondency warnings which attain prominence but fail to ensue.

Aretha suffered through rough relationships with men, chronic weight problems and bouts of despondency.

There were eggs and coffee, and mutual confessions about their despondency over partisanship.

Although the art he left behind suggests many shifting states of mind, despondency is seldom one of them.

Fabre's, for his actions and manners range from the depths of despondency to the heights of happiness.

Bartha seemed to be swallowed by his own despondency.

Foster might have been driven to suicide by despondency over recent negative publicity related to.

Ella was thrown deeper into heartache and despondency.

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World English Dictionary

despondent (dɪˈspɒndənt)

—*adj*
	downcast or disheartened; lacking hope or courage; dejected

de'spondence

—n

de'spondency

—n

de'spondently

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

despondency

1650s, from despondence.

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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

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