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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Short translation?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:05:41 -0400
I should have known better than to display my language ignorance in 
front of the English Academy.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt

Chris Barker wrote:
> No, I've never heard "despond" as a verb.  It's archaic English and  
> it's a noun.
> 
> It is normally "despondency" now but it could have been an artistic  
> contraction.  If only I could remember the poetry or prose where I  
> read it.  It might have been a bit from "Paradise Lost".


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