despondence

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Just as John Keats called on hope to “keep that fiend Despondence far aloof”, let’s use our failures as stepping stones to success.

From Nature • Sep. 16, 2019

The unhappy Want of Commerce arises from the insolent Arrogance or Exultation in Youth, and the irrational Despondence or Self-pity in Age.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

But lift thy sunk eye, and thy bloodless look, Despondence!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

Despondence veiled her normally affable countenance as she grappled internally with the implications of the revelations.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn