All 3 Uses of
despair
in
The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
- Eustace's despairing cry suddenly ended as the water got into his mouth.
Chpt 1despairing = greatly distressed
- The pleasure... of being liked... was what kept Eustace from despair.
Chpt 7 *despair = distress (at not knowing how to improve a bad situation)
- "Dearest," said Aslan very gently, "you and your brother will never come balk to Narnia."
"Oh, Aslan!!" said Edmund and Lucy both together in despairing voices.Chpt 16despairing = distress (at inability to fix a bad situation)
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)