DESPOND Definition & Meaning

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despond

[dih-spond, des-pond]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

to be depressed by loss of hope, confidence, or courage.

noun

despondency.

despond

verb

(intr) to lose heart or hope; become disheartened; despair

noun

archaic��lack of hope; despondency

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

desponder noun
despondingly adverb
undesponding adjective
undespondingly adverb
��ˈ��ǲԻ徱�Բ�� adverb

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of despond¹

1670–80; < Latin ��ŧ��ǲԻ�ŧ�� to give up, lose heart, promise, equivalent to ��ŧ- de- + ��ǲԻ�ŧ�� to promise

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of despond¹

C17: from Latin ��ŧ��ǲԻ�ŧ�� to promise, make over to, yield, lose heart, from _de- + ��ǲԻ�ŧ�� to promise

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Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness.

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Lawrence started building “Phantasma Gloria” around the turn of the millennium, when he was “languishing in the sea of despond for the unmet yearning to create something new and beautiful in the world.”

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By the time Max shows up at Sondheim’s Manhattan townhouse in Turtle Bay for a New Yorker profile, Sondheim, a reluctant interviewee, is fighting a “slough of creative despond.”

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“The Unfolding” suggests no solutions to this plight, but it offers irresistible reflection on how the audacity of hope got pushed off the rails and fell into the slough of despond.

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Anything less, and it’s a descent into the slough of despond.

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despoliation despondency

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