despondence
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despondence (countable and uncountable, plural despondences)
- The state of being downcast or despondent.
- 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, "as thy day, so shall thy strength be.", pages 88–89:
- When adverse winds and waves arise,
And in my heart despondence sighs,
....
Grateful I hear the kind decree
That "as my day,—my strength shall be."—
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despondency — see despondency