Definition of "desponds" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of despond. (verb)

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• "No wonder that Clive hangs his head; rebels sometimes, desponds always: he has positively determined to refuse to stand for"
• "In the loss of the educational clauses, that bill lost all which could entitle it to a separate notice; and, where the Government itself desponds as to any future hope of succeeding, private parties may have leave to despair."
• "Hence, like a person haunted by spectres, he loses the free enjoyment even of a safe and prosperous state, and on the first shock of adversity he desponds."