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Despair   /dɪspˈɛr/   Listen
noun
Despair  n.  
1.
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. "We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair." "Before he (Bunyan) was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair."
2.
That which is despaired of. "The mere despair of surgery he cures."
Synonyms: Desperation; despondency; hopelessness.


verb
Despair  v. t.  
1.
To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. (Obs.) "I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted."
2.
To cause to despair. (Obs.)


Despair  v. i.  (past & past part. despaired; pres. part. despairing)  To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; often with of. "We despaired even of life." "Never despair of God's blessings here."
Synonyms: See Despond.





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"Despair" Quotes from Famous Books



... realist—to yield easily to romance. As a very young man he edited in Dublin a paper called The Nationist, for which he claimed, above all things, that it stood for "realism" in politics. Some men are driven into revolution by despair: it was as though Kettle had been driven into reform by despair. He admired the Utopians, but he could not share their faith. "If one never got tired," he wrote in a sketch of the International ...
— Old and New Masters • Robert Lynd
... hymns that were sung at the end of each day—though there may be an attempt to catch something of that common sentiment (which we have tried to suggest above)-a strength of hope that never gives way to despair—a conviction in the power of the common soul which, when all is said and done, may be as typical as any theme of Concord and ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives
... Goblins spoiled the beautiful cloth the spider had taken so much trouble to weave; they spilled the lemonade and they crumbled the cake and the poor Queen was in despair. ...
— Sandman's Goodnight Stories • Abbie Phillips Walker
... Michael in despair took hold of the other's arm and tried to explain what he wanted to know. Finally he succeeded in bringing the matter into ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... gently back on the floor. I went again in despair. But I heard Bridget's step this time. First flight, first passage; second flight, second passage. She ran in in triumph at length, with ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale


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