despondとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɒnd/
  • (まれに, noun usage) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛspɒnd/
  • ハイフネーション: de‧spond
  • 韻: -ɒnd

動詞

despond (三人称単数 現在形 desponds, 現在分詞 desponding, 過去形および過去分詞形 desponded)

1. To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
   • 1867, John Conington, Aeneid, translation of original by Virgil, page 176:

     Yet still despond not, but proceed
     Along the path where fate may lead.

   • October 16, 1820, Thomas Scott, letter to the Rev. G. Knight, Harwell

     I should despair, or at least despond.

   • a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663:

     Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.

   • June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument

     We wish that […] desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.