All 9 Uses of
despair
in
Candide
- Scarcely had I recovered my senses than I saw you stripped, stark naked, and this was the height of my horror, consternation, grief, and despair.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- My mother, in despair, and scarcely less afflicted than myself, determined to absent herself for some time from so fatal a place.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- I fell, oppressed with fright, fatigue, horror, despair, and hunger.
Chpt 11 (definition 1) *despair = hopelessness
- What will it avail me to spin out my wretched days and drag them far from her in remorse and despair?†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)
- "Do not despair," said he to the disconsolate Candide, "I understand a little of the jargon of these people, I will speak to them."†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)
- He despaired at parting from so good a master, who had become his intimate friend; but the pleasure of serving him prevailed over the pain of leaving him.
Chpt 19 (definition 2)despaired = felt bad
- This drove Candide to despair; he had, indeed, endured misfortunes a thousand times worse; the coolness of the magistrate and of the skipper who had robbed him, roused his choler and flung him into a deep melancholy.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- I should have been burnt, but you may remember it rained exceedingly hard when they were going to roast me; the storm was so violent that they despaired of lighting the fire, so I was hanged because they could do no better.
Chpt 28 (definition 2) *despaired = lost hope
- Pangloss was in despair at not shining in some German university.†
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
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