Both Uses of
despair
in
Babbitt
- A little grimly he perceived that this had been his last despairing fling before the paralyzed contentment of middle-age.†
Chpt 33 *
- In this they were like the ruling-class of any other country, particularly of Great Britain, but they differed in being more vigorous and in actually trying to produce the accepted standards which all classes, everywhere, desire, but usually despair of realizing.†
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)