Definition of "desponding" [desponding]

• Present participle of despond. (verb)

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• "But before I leave what I call the desponding epoch of my schoolboy days, I must not omit to mention a species of impious barbarity, that had well-nigh alienated my heart for ever from religion, and which made me for the time detest the very name of church."
• "Frankenstein, who appears lost in desponding reverie."
• "Her angry tone had changed into a kind of desponding complaint before she had ended her sentence."