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  • adjective Not desponding.

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un- +‎ desponding

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Examples

  • “I am quite contented for myself ... seldom or never troubled with nothing to do and merely desiring that everybody could be as comfortable as myself and as undesponding, and then we should have a very tolerable world of it.”

    The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912

  • "I am quite contented for myself ... seldom or never troubled with nothing to do and merely desiring that everybody could be as comfortable as myself and as undesponding, and then we should have a very tolerable world of it."

    The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904

  • _seldom or ever troubled with nothing to do_, _and merely desiring that everybody could be as comfortable as myself and as undesponding_, _and then we should have a very tolerable world of it_.

    Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891

  • That devotion should be practised with perseverance and with an undesponding heart. [

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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