All 8 Uses
despair
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- "They're back," Rosalie said, and immediately my childish fit of despair passed.†
Book 1
- The night scene was bleak for me—full of despair.†
Book 2
- Unwilling, almost despairing truth.†
Book 2
- Yeah, I know, she told him, and the thought was loaded with the heaviness of her despair.†
Book 2
- Looking into her eyes was like looking out of a grave from the inside; I was buried in the terror and despair and agony of her gaze.†
Book 3 *
- The bright morning air seemed thicker suddenly, blacker, as if physically darkened by my despair.†
Book 3
- Despair weighted the air, pushing me down with more pressure than before.†
Book 3
- My hopeless despair vanished entirely.†
Book 3
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)