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Definition
hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)
- Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total despair,Ii (32% in)
despair = hopelessness
- ...the main thing holding the family back from their decision to move was much more to do with their total despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related to.Iii (13% in)
- Meanwhile Gregor's sister had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was suddenly interrupted.Iii (54% in)
despair = hopelessness
despair = hopelessness
There are no more uses of "despair" in Metamorphosis.
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