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DESPOND, v.i.[L. To promise; literally, to throw to or forward.]

1. To be cast down; to be depressed or dejected in mind; to fail in spirits.

I should despair, or at least despond.

2. To lose all courage, spirit or resolution; to sink by loss of hope.

Others depress their own mind, and despond at the first difficulty.

Note. The distinction between despair and despond is well marked in the foregoing passage from Scott. But although despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case, yet despondency is followed by the abandonment of effort, or cessation of action, and despair sometimes impelss to violent action, even to rage.

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Despond (despond)
v. i.(?)
De*spond"
[imp. *** p. p. Desponded] p. pr. *** vb. n. Desponding.] [L. despond&emacr]re, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de- + spond
  1. To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.

    I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters.

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

    We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.

    Syn. -- Despond, Dispair. Despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case; yet despondency is often more lasting than despair, or than desperation, which impels to violent action.

  2. Despondency.
    [Obs.]

    The slough of despond. Bunyan.


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