Despondency meaning

Yet there was great despondency, of course, in the Conservative ranks; with despondency discontent; with discontent rancour.

He had led the country out of the despondency which followed the defeat of Novara and the abdication of Charles Albert, through all the vicissitudes of national unification to the final triumph at Rome.

Or fall into a slough of despondency from which I ca n't reach the keyboard.

Though Carlyle, especially in his earlier years, could deliver an invigorating and encouraging, if not a sanguine doctrine, his utterances were more generally couched in the key of denunciation, and betrayed a growing despondency.

Throughout November, Rommel's private letters betrayed an increasing despondency.