Definition of "desponded" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of despond. (verb)

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• "On the question being propounded whether he could go and find her, the page desponded and thought not; but being stimulated with a shilling, the page grew sanguine and thought he could."
• "He was no longer sulky and indolent: he no more desponded about himself, or defied his neighbours."
• "I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry — then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world."