Part 3010

<h1>Despoilment</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spoil"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Despoliation.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Despoliation</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spo`li*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>despoliatio</ets>. See <er>Despoil</er>.]</ety> <def>A stripping or plundering; spoliation.</def>

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Despond</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spond"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Desponded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Desponding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>despond<?/re</ets>, <ets>desponsum</ets>, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>spond<?/re</ets> to promise solemnly. See <er>Sponsor</er>.]</ety> <def>To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.</def>

<blockquote>I should despair, or at least <b>despond</b>. <i>Scott's Letters.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Others depress their own minds, <b>despond</b> at the first difficulty. <i>Locke.</i>

<blockquote>We wish that . . . <b>desponding</b> patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong. <i>D. Webster.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Despond</er>, <er>Dispair</er>.</syn> <usage> <i>Despair</i> implies a total loss of hope, which <i>despond</i> does not, at least in every case; yet <i>despondency</i> is often more lasting than <i>despair</i>, or than <i>desperation</i>, which impels to violent action.</usage>

<h1>Despond</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spond"</hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>Despondency.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The slough of <b>despond</b>. <i>Bunyan.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Despondence</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spond"ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Despondency.</def>

<blockquote>The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness saunter about with looks of <b>despondence</b>. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Despondency</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spond"en*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.</def>

<blockquote>The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in <b>despondency</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Despondent</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spond"ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>despondens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>despond<?/re</ets>.]</ety> <def>Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; <as>as, a <ex>despondent</ex> manner; a <ex>despondent</ex> prisoner.</as></def> -- <wordforms><wf>De*spond"ent*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Desponder</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spond"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who desponds.</def>

<h1>Despondingly</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spond"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a desponding manner.</def>

<h1>Desponsage</h1> <Xpage=399>

<hw>De*spon"sage</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From L. <ets>desponsus</ets>, p. p. See <er>Despond</er>.]</ety> <def>Betrothal.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>