All 6 Uses of
despair
in
Emma
- We will not despair, however.†
Chpt 1.5-6 *
- I need not so totally despair of an equal alliance, as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith!†
Chpt 1.15-16
- It is just what I used to say to a certain gentleman in company in the days of courtship, when, because things did not go quite right, did not proceed with all the rapidity which suited his feelings, he was apt to be in despair, and exclaim that he was sure at this rate it would be May before Hymen's saffron robe would be put on for us.†
Chpt 2.17-18
- The carriage—we had disappointments about the carriage;—one morning, I remember, he came to me quite in despair.†
Chpt 2.17-18
- — She said enough to shew there need not be despair—and to invite him to say more himself.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- He had despaired at one period; he had received such an injunction to caution and silence, as for the time crushed every hope;—she had begun by refusing to hear him.†
Chpt 3.13-14 *
Definitions:
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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)
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(despair as in: do not despair) lose hope or feel distress