Both Uses
despondent
in
After the First Death
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- When Kate heard the sound of helicopter, she had been sitting despondently in the driver's seat, clutching the wheel uselessly, unable to face the children any longer and unwilling to look at the boy Miro.†
Part 4despondently = in a depressed manner
- She felt despondent suddenly,
Part 6 *despondent = depressed
Definitions:
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(1)
(despondent) emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)