Both Uses
despair
in
Romeo and Juliet
(Edited)
- She is too fair, too wise; wisely too fair,
To merit bliss by making me despair.p. 25.4 *despair = give up hope - O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.p. 57.9 *despair = hopelessness
Definitions:
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(1)
(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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(2)
(despair as in: do not despair) lose hope or feel distress
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(3)
(despair as in: she was the despair of the team) something that causes hopelessness or great distress
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)