Deject vs Despond - What's the difference?
deject | despond |
Make sad or dispirited.
* Benjamin Franklin
(obsolete) To cast down.
* Udall
* Fuller
To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
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* Scott's Letters
* John Locke
* D. Webster
(archaic) Despondency.
As verbs the difference between deject and despond
is that deject is make sad or dispirited while despond is to give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.As a noun despond is
despondency.deject
English
Verb
- I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
- Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
- Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
Quotations
* 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03459385&id=fx8LAAAAMAAJ&q=dejects&dq=dejects&pgis=1] (page 215) *: Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism. * 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00764755&id=U6cQm3IcVHcC&q=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&dq=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&pgis=1] *: On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.Derived terms
* dejected * dejectiondespond
English
Verb
(en verb)- I should despair, or at least despond .
- Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.
- We wish that desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.