All 5 Uses of
despondent
in
The Scarlet Letter
- She could recognize her wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and even some of the very cloud-shapes of gloom and despondency that had brooded in her heart.†
Chpt 6
- He expressed great alarm at his pastor's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favourable result.†
Chpt 9
- With a chill despondency, like one awakening, all nerveless, from an ugly dream, he yielded himself to the physician, and was led away.†
Chpt 12
- He looked haggard and feeble, and betrayed a nerveless despondency in his air, which had never so remarkably characterised him in his walks about the settlement, nor in any other situation where he deemed himself liable to notice.†
Chpt 16
- It was the last expression of the despondency of a broken spirit.
Chpt 17 *despondency = depression
Definition:
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(despondent) emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss