All 7 Uses of
despondent
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- The despondent frame of mind in which she had left home began again to overtake her, and she remembered that she wished to find Mademoiselle Reisz.†
Chpt 20despondent = depressed
- She felt she had been childish and unwise the night before in giving herself over to despondency.†
Chpt 35despondency = depression
- Each morning she awoke with hope, and each night she was a prey to despondency.†
Chpt 35
- There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.†
Chpt 35
- Edna had intended to be indifferent and as reserved as he when she met him; she had reached the determination by a laborious train of reasoning, incident to one of her despondent moods.†
Chpt 36despondent = depressed
- There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me.†
Chpt 38despondency = depression
- Despondency had come upon her there in the wakeful night, and had never lifted.
Chpt 39 *
Definition:
emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss