All 4 Uses of
despair
in
Washington Square
- You advise me, then, not to despair?†
Chpt 9 *
- I should be very sorry to admit that a robust and well-disposed young man need ever despair.†
Chpt 9
- Mrs. Penniman was in despair, and she noted, with extreme annoyance, that the trace of the night's tears had completely vanished from Catherine's eyes.†
Chpt 19
- And then, as if from a sense of the inadequacy of this explanation, "But you will not despair—you will come back?"†
Chpt 35
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)