despond

Definition of despond

de`spond´
v. i.1.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.
[imp. & p. p. Desponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Desponding.]
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.
n.1.Despondency.
The slough of despond.
- Bunyan.

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