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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
despond /dɪˈspɒnd/

▶verb archaic become dejected and lose confidence.

– origin C17: from L. despondere ‘give up, abandon’, from de- ‘away’ + spondere ‘to promise’.

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