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    [Noun phrase]  | "slough of de*spond" | \ ˌslau̇-əv-di-ˈspänd \


    1: a state of extreme depression


    Origin: 1776 ;

     From the Slough of Despond, deep bog into which Christian falls on the way from the City of Destruction and from which Help saves him in the allegory Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan;

    [Phrase]  | "slough of despond" 


    1: utter loss of hope;


      * e.g., " ... She had the support of her friends and family through her slough of despond. "





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