Despond

//dɪˈspɒnd//

"Despond" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Yet still despond not, but proceed Along the path where fate may lead.

October 16, 1820, Thomas Scott, letter to the Rev. G. Knight, Harwell I should despair, or at least despond.

Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.

June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument We wish that […] desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.

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