Both Uses of
despair
in
All's Well That Ends Well
- Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.†
Scene 2.1 *
- The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.†
Scene 4.3
Definition:
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(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)