All 3 Uses of
despair
in
The Age of Innocence
- For a moment she remained motionless; then she raised on him eyes of such despairing dearness that he half-released her waist from his hold.†
Chpt 16
- Archer sprang to his feet and stood looking down on her in inarticulate despair.†
Chpt 31 *
- But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.†
Chpt 34
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)