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despondence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Despondence \De*spond"ence\, n. Despondency.
The people, when once infected, lose their relish for
happiness [and] saunter about with looks of
despondence.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Latin despondere "to give up, lose, lose heart, resign, to promise in marriage" (especially in phrase animam despondere, literally "give up one's soul"), from the sense of a promise to give something away, from de- "away" (see de-) + spondere "to promise" (see spondee). A condition more severe than despair.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being downcast or despondent.
WordNet
n. feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, heartsickness, disconsolateness]
Usage examples of "despondence".
Few, if any, of her intimates had ever had such sound reasons for despondence as bond-sundered Andorians.