All 14 Uses
despair
in
The Red Badge of Courage
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- He had long despaired of witnessing a Greeklike struggle.†
Chpt 1 *despaired = lost hope
- The men in blue were intent with the despair of their circumstances and they seized upon the revenge to be had at close range.
Chpt 20 *despair = hopelessness
- The tall one, red-faced, swallowed another sandwich as if taking poison in despair.†
Chpt 3
- Its motion as it fell was a gesture of despair.†
Chpt 4
- He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair.†
Chpt 7
- The shadows of his face were deepening and his tight lips seemed holding in check the moan of great despair.†
Chpt 9
- There was a little accent of despair in his voice as he replied, "Lord knows I 've gota 'nough m' own t' tend to."†
Chpt 10
- In despair, he declared that he was not like those others.†
Chpt 11
- And when he was compelled to retire again, he did it slowly, sullenly, taking steps of wrathful despair.†
Chpt 17
- There was the delirium that encounters despair and death, and is heedless and blind to the odds.†
Chpt 19
- Within him, as he hurled himself forward, was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him.†
Chpt 19
- They fought swiftly and with a despairing savageness denoted in their expressions.†
Chpt 22
- It was a blind and despairing rush by the collection of men in dusty and tattered blue, over a green sward and under a sapphire sky, toward a fence, dimly outlined in smoke, from behind which sputtered the fierce rifles of enemies.†
Chpt 23
- The despair of the lost was in his eyes as he glanced back at them.†
Chpt 23
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)