despondency , also: despond

Then tell me of it, for I'm very close to despondency.

That made a little more sense, but it did not do much for my despondency.

Could her despondency have something to do with the weather?

I waited for a moment, but both of them seemed lost in despondency.

She had been in deep despondency, almost certain that he would not find time for a visit.

He now lives under house arrest in a state of despondency, according to the book.

His recent despondency, not to say despair, was gone in a moment.

She tried to think, to force herself out of this frozen despondency.

Not the kitchen of a woman totally lost to despondency.

At present there is much despondency, even despair in certain areas of research.

Unfortunately, there is also cause for despondency, but we continue to hope, of course.

He had not been angry in two weeks which was a measure of his despondency.

I must say it was difficult to suppress a certain amount of despondency.

Usually he liked this view, but now it added to his despondency.

He walked back and forth, trying to throw off his despondency.

It is not a momentary despondency but rather a state of being.

For a time his despondency led him to contemplate suicide.

She looked up, making a visible effort to shake off her despondency.

"Their record shows they're on a better track; they had a despondency you could see last season," Jackson said.

During the following months the School managed to carry on, but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency.

They don't want to create alarm and despondency until they've got to.

Ten times that many are near death, and their despondency shakes the planet.

Thinking about it, Mark felt a despondency slowly overwhelm him.

He shot himself in a fit of despondency, dying on February 28, 1893.

Then, like the natural boy, he forgot his despondency, and sprang up.