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Despair

noun

A state in which all hope is lost or absent. Synonym: desperation. "They were rescued from despair at the last minute" , "Courage born of desperation"

The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well. "One harsh word would send her into the depths of despair"

verb

(past & past part. despaired; pres. part. despairing)

Abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart.

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"Despair" Quotes from Famous Books

... His despair passed. His face suddenly lighted. He smiled. It was so absurd. "Really!" he said. "When was the ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... emigration to the islands of the Atlantic; who could blame them? But minds of the nobler order disdain to save themselves apart from their nation, and great natures enjoy the privilege of deriving enthusiasm from circumstances in which the multitude of good men despair. They accepted the new conditions just as Rome dictated them; no course was left but to submit and, adding fresh bitterness to their former hatred, carefully to cherish and husband resentment—that last resource of an injured nation. They then took steps towards a political reform.(1) They ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... another. The unbelievers stood aside; the believers did nothing, in a palsy of amaze; the poor woman, to whom her toil and pride in it had hallowed the stuff, sank down staying herself on her hands from the floor, in hapless despair. Her moaning and sobbing filled the place after the tumult of destruction had been stricken silent. "Oh, I don't care for the miracle," she kept lamenting, "but what are my children going to wear this winter? ...

— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells

... fiercely or resentfully, but in a sort of meditative, passive despair. A sense of the wickedness, the cruelty there was in the world, the hopelessness of struggling against it, of disentangling fact from falsehood, of silencing malice and disarming envy, came upon Christian in a fit of bitterness uncontrollable. She felt as if ...

— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... audaciously nailed on the door of the Church at Wittenberg a protest against the selling of papal indulgences, and the pent-up hopes, griefs and despair of centuries burst into a storm which ...

— The Evolution of an Empire • Mary Parmele

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