All 4 Uses of
despair
in
Main Street
- When Carol had walked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and despaired.†
Chpt 4
- She never recalled her first impression of Main Street; never had precisely the same despair at its ugliness.†
Chpt 5
- On her most despairing days she chatted to women on the street, in stores.†
Chpt 9 *
- When she heard that Kennicott was to marry a girl, pretty, young, and imposingly from the Cities, Vida despaired.†
Chpt 21 *
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