Desponding

Word DESPONDING
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Definitions and meanings of "Desponding"

What do we mean by desponding?

To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.

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The word "desponding" in example sentences

But before I leave what I call the desponding epoch of my schoolboy days, I must not omit to mention a species of impious barbarity, that had well-nigh alienated my heart for ever from religion, and which made me for the time detest the very name of church. ❋ Edward Howard (1820)

Frankenstein, who appears lost in desponding reverie. ❋ Unknown (1823)

Her angry tone had changed into a kind of desponding complaint before she had ended her sentence. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

God knows, nothing of this kind was ever in my thoughts; but I have entered very deeply into your affliction with regard to your Mother; and while I was wishing, the many poor souls in the kind of desponding way she is in, whom I have seen, came afresh into my mind; and all the mismanagement with which I have seen them treated was strong in my mind, and I wrote under a forcible impulse, which I could not at that time resist, but I have fretted so much about it since, that I think it is the last time I will ever let my pen run away with me. ❋ Mary Lamb (1805)

“Thus deserted, I retired with my unfortunate family to an obscure quarter of the town, where I remained near two years in a kind of desponding apathy, brooding over my misfortunes, without exerting myself to shake off the burden of them, and barely existing on the trifles which had escaped the general wreck, and some few receipts of small, and almost hopeless, debts. ❋ Unknown (1786)

My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare, and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? ❋ Unknown (2010)

When the infirm parent can comfort himself with the reflection that his family is provided for, that his little suppliant infants need not ask in vain for food, nor wring the desponding tear from a father's eye — the hapless messenger of a woeful errand, he enjoys his quiet slumbers without interruption, and no rude care break in to disturb his waking fruition. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.26 ❋ Philip Zimbardo (2008)

The glover seemed particularly desponding, and talked more than once in a manner which implied a wish that they would yet consent to let the matter rest. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She now hung down her head, weeping and desponding. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This was too sudden a joy for the desponding Camilla, whose breath instantly stopt, and who must have fallen upon the floor, had she not been caught by Edgar; who, though his own eyes copiously overflowed with delight, at such unexpected good news of the universally beloved Baronet, had strength and exertion sufficient to carry her downstairs into the parlour, accompanied by Eugenia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'Let us pray,' said Mrs. Tyrold, with a sigh, 'that these evils may pass away, and by salutary exertions, not desponding repinings, earn back our fugitive peace.' ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Major impatiently waited for an answer; but Sir Hugh was too much disordered to frame one; he walked up and down the room, muttering in a desponding mariner, to himself, 'Lord, help us! what a set of poor weak mortals we are, we poor men! ❋ Unknown (2008)

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