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11 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
23 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPONDENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:

the state of being despondent, also DESPONDENCE
low spirits from loss of hope or courage; dejection
The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the state of being despondent; dejection, hopelessness

Words related to DESPONDENCY

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How to use DESPONDENCY in a sentence

If ever despondency and asperity could be excused in any man, they might have been excused in Milton.
Everything seemed to justify alarm and despondency.
What were they to do? In fact, there was to some extent reason for despondency.
Aunt Rachel sank into a fit of deep despondency, and did not say another word till dinner time.
The despondency which followed this startling revelation, however, was quickly replaced by the intense excitement of meeting the enemy so soon.
The deepest gloom and despondency prevailed that night throughout London.
I saw that after a month at home I would not want to come back to school, and that I should have to endure another period of despondency.
As in so many of the productions of the best English writers at the present day, something of despondency in regard to the condition of the world is to be traced in them.
This event threw him into deep despondency, and seriously affected his health.
As I reason on these things my heart fails me, and the question, how friends are to be acquired, fills me with despondency.

Their communion was now marked by despondency and by tears, for the most part shed during their confidential interviews with each other.
But soon the novelty wore away, and his constitutional despondency returned with accumulated power.
His despondency could not be concealed from his army, and his bravest troops declared that they could fight no longer.
Reduced once again to a gloomy despondency, all turned to their places, to await the end that can not now be long deferred.
The witness stated that the outburst of despondency in this letter was almost a solitary one, most of the letters in his possession being bright, buoyant, and hopeful.
The Terror came away content, since he had gained his end, and did not share her despondency.
Long after he was out of sight the chaplain stood fixed in the same attitude of panic-stricken, helpless despondency.
In the calm stillness of the night her despondency drained her of all her strength.
But there was no cause for despondency in the attitude of the converts.
Oh, dear Sarah, the unspeakable peace that I enjoyed! Of course I was to come down from the mount, but not into the valley of despondency.
In the sheer exhaustion of his resources, in his numb despondency, he neglected even to drive the horse out of the water.
The former part of the year 1780, was one of gloom and despondency in the Southern States.
For these reasons, and for others, Katharine had her moments of despondency.
He slipped through all the grades of despondency until he reached a bottom of absolute gloom.
He bore himself with courtesy and consideration, but he was so much worn with fatigue and despondency that he could not take any initiative.
Then Lucius himself, wearing an air of extreme gravity and even despondency, was called, and a murmur of sympathy ran through the audience.
Everywhere they found the people in a state of either deep despondency or intense exasperation.

Similar words containing SPONDEN without suffix cy and without prefix de

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