Desponder

De`spond´er


n. 1. One who desponds.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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When he confessed his agonies, Johnson felt threatened and warned him to "make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself, never to mention your own mental diseases." Kinbote, in a lucid moment, describes himself as "a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man." Like Boswell and Johnson (who often quoted Richard Burton's "be not solitary, be not idle"), Kinbote can't bear solitude and laments "the depths of [his] loneliness and distress."
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