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 Definition: [n]  feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
 
 Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness
 
 See Also: blue devils, depression

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\De*spond"ence\, n.
Despondency.

      The people, when once infected, lose their relish for
      happiness [and] saunter about with looks of
      despondence.                             --Goldsmith.

 

 

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