All 3 Uses
despair
in
Life of Pi
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- A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger.†
Chpt 57-60 *
- Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out.†
Chpt 73-76
- He had no expression on his face, neither of despair nor of anger, neither of fear nor of pain.†
Chpt 97-100
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)