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despondence

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de·spon·dence  (d-spndns)
n.
Despondency.
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Noun1.despondence - feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
depression - sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

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A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.
As she walked along, seemingly incommoded by the burden, a young man met her, whose countenance expressed a deeper despondence.
"The sun cannot be yonder," said Hannah, with despondence.
 
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