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Desponding

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That causes or communicates despondency; disheartening or despondent.

    "[T]he doubts, apprehensions, and desponding suspense which had accompanied her setting out, were now all removed, and certainty, ease, the expectation of happiness, and the cessation of all perplexity, had taken their place."

Noun
  1. 1
    A feeling or expression of despondency.

    "These are the despondings of men without money; but let the shining ore chink in the pocket, and folly turns to wisdom."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of despond form-of, gerund, participle, present

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