Definition of "desponding"
adjective
comparative more desponding, superlative most desponding
That causes or communicates despondency; disheartening or despondent.
Quotations
[T]he doubts, apprehensions, and desponding suspense which had accompanied her setting out, were now all removed, and certainty, ease, the expectation of happiness, and the cessation of all perplexity, had taken their place.
1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, V.x.1