All 4 Uses of
despair
in
Sense and Sensibility
- It is yet too early in life to despair of such a happiness.†
Chpt 3 *
- If she had only made me a formal courtesy, for instance, without saying a word, and never after had took any notice of me, and never looked at me in a pleasant way—you know what I mean—if I had been treated in that forbidding sort of way, I should have gave it all up in despair.†
Chpt 35
- The knowledge of what her mother must be feeling as the carriage stopt at the door— of her doubt—her dread—perhaps her despair!†
Chpt 43
- He was released without any reproach to himself, from an entanglement which had long formed his misery, from a woman whom he had long ceased to love;— and elevated at once to that security with another, which he must have thought of almost with despair, as soon as he had learnt to consider it with desire.†
Chpt 49
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)