Desponds vs Responds - What's the difference?
desponds | responds |
(despond)
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 desponds and responds
is that desponds is (despond) while responds is (respond).As a noun responds is
.desponds
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Verb
(head)despond
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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.
