All 5 Uses of
despondent
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Up one minute and down the next; now in spirits and now in despondency!
Chpt 2.5 *despondency = depression
- The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration.†
Chpt 2.9
- "Tut, tut!" said Mr. Lorry; "what is this despondency in the brave little breast?†
Chpt 3.3
- "Don't despond," said Carton, very gently; "don't grieve.†
Chpt 3.11
- And he told him this, very strongly, with the hope of rousing him from any despondency or dangerous retrospect towards which he foresaw he might be tending.†
Chpt 3.13
Definition:
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(despondent) emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss