SLOUGH OF DESPOND


Meaning of SLOUGH OF DESPOND in English

Etymology: 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 Date: 1776 a state of extreme depression

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