despond
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēspondeō (“give up, abandon”), from dē (“from”) + spondeō (“promise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈspɒnd/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "rare" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈdɛspɒnd/
- Hyphenation: de‧spond
- Rhymes: -ɒnd
Verb
despond (third-person singular simple present desponds, present participle desponding, simple past and past participle desponded)
- To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
- 1867, John Conington, The Aeneid of Virgil, translation of original by Virgil, page 176:
- Yet still despond not, but proceed
Along the path where fate may lead.
- Scott's Letters
- I should despair, or at least despond.
- John Locke
- Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.
- D. Webster
- We wish that […] desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.
Translations
to give up the will, courage, or spirit
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Noun
despond (uncountable)