All 5 Uses of
despair
in
O Pioneers!
- It seemed strange that ... the feeling which gave one of them such happiness should bring the other such despair.
Chpt 2.9 *despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
- Her master was sunk in despair.†
Chpt 1.1
- On the shipbuilder's part, this marriage was an infatuation, the despairing folly of a powerful man who cannot bear to grow old.†
Chpt 1.2
- Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare.†
Chpt 1.4
- Amedee staggered up with a gesture of despair.†
Chpt 4.4
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