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Definition of Desponded
1. despond [v] - See also: despond
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desponded
Literary usage of Desponded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"... capable of seeing his magnitude, desponded,7 and almost suffered dissolution,
had not some one,—he whom he calls Horos, to wit,—sent to invigorate him, ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1877)
"It is said that the preacher himself desponded-—not wisely, perhaps, but desponded—of
the result on the minds of the cultured audience to whom it was his ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"What, sir, said Mr. M., would have become of Rome, had she desponded when Hannibal
defeated her armies? She rose npon it and became the mistress of the ..."
4. Richard Baird Smith: The Leader of the Delhi Heroes in 1857. Private by Henry Meredith Vibart (1897)
"... 1883, in which he said:— "In spite of wretched health Wilson did his best,
and that considering the circumstances, it is no wonder if he desponded. ..."
5. A History of the Indian Mutiny: And of the Disturbances which Accompanied it by Thomas Rice Holmes (1904)
"That he desponded is certainly not wonderful: but, as Baird Smith sal others
whose health was as bad as his did not despond, ..."
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