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countable and uncountable, plural despondences
The state of being downcast or despondent. quotations examples
When adverse winds and waves arise,And in my heart despondence sighs,....Grateful I hear the kind decreeThat "as my day,—my strength shall be."—
1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, "as thy day, so shall thy strength be.", pages 88–89