All 3 Uses of
despair
in
The Time Machine
- I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moon-lit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness.†
Chpt 5
- 'I sat up in the freshness of the morning, trying to remember how I had got there, and why I had such a profound sense of desertion and despair.†
Chpt 5
- That would be my only hope, perhaps, but better than despair.†
Chpt 5 *
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)