All 5 Uses of
despair
in
As I Lay Dying
- It seems to me that the end which I now carry alone has no weight, as though it coasts like a rushing straw upon the furious tide of Jewel's despair.
Chpt 23 (definition 1)despair = hopelessness
- his face suffused with fury and despair.
Chpt 23 (definition 1)
- That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
- They too are breathing now with a deep groaning sound; looking back once, their gaze sweeps across us with in their eyes a wild, sad, profound and despairing quality as though they had already seen in the thick water the shape of the disaster which they could not speak and we could not see.
Chpt 34 (definition 1) *despairing = hopeless
- It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs.
Chpt 52 (definition 2) *despairs = things that cause 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: she was the despair of the team) something that causes hopelessness or great distress