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・ despiteously
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・ despoiler
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despond
・ despondence
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・ desponsage
・ desponsate
・ desponsation
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Despond"
(), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Desponded; p. pr. & vb. n.Desponding.] [L. despondre, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de- + spondre to promise solemnly. See Sponsor.] To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
I should despair, or at least despond.
Scott's Letters.
Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.
Locke.
We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong.
D. Webster.
Syn. -- Despond, Dispair. Despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case; yet despondency is often more lasting than despair, or than desperation, which impels to violent action.

Despond"
n.Despondency. [Obs.]
The slough of despond.
Bunyan.



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