All 5 Uses of
despair
in
The Magician's Nephew
- They were even despairing faces: as if the people they belonged to had done dreadful things and also suffered dreadful things.
Chpt 4despairing = distressed and hopeless
- "But please, please — won't you — can't you give me something that will cure Mother?"
Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face.Chpt 12despair = great need or desire
- Come in by the gold gates or not at all,
Take of my fruit for others or forbear,
For those who steal or those who climb my wall
Shall find their heart's desire and find despair.Chpt 13despair = hopelessness
- And he began to see that there might be some sense in that last line about getting your heart's desire and getting despair along with it.
Chpt 13 *
- She dare not come within a hundred miles of the Tree, for its smell, which is joy and life and health to you, is death and horror and despair to her.
Chpt 14
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)