All 11 Uses
despair
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Brideshead Revisited
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- So my cousin Jasper despaired and, I learned later, wrote to his father on the subject of my excesses who, in his turn, wrote to my father, who took no action or particular thought in the matter, partly because he had disliked my uncle for nearly sixty years and partly because, as Jasper had said, he lived in his own world now, since my mother's death.†
p. 46.3despaired = lost hope
- The doctors despaired of it from the start.†
p. 79.9
- But it seemed she had not quite despaired, for a few days later I got a note from her which said: "I shall be passing through Oxford on Tuesday and hope to see you and Sebastian.†
p. 159.8
- "Two wives despaired of him," he said.†
p. 190.2 *
- He put Sonia Bamfshire on her feet when everyone including Anstruther had despaired of her.†
p. 200.3
- Then, to be frank, dear Charles, I despaired of you.†
p. 311.8
- The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth—all save this—come and go with us through life.†
p. 87.2
- His constant, despairing prayer was to be let alone.†
p. 143.9
- The lawyers were in despair.†
p. 218.9
- The diamonds flashed in her hair and on her fingers, but her hands were nervously rolling little balls of crumb, and her starry head drooped in despair.†
p. 282.5 *
- It may be because of mummy, nanny, Cordelia, Sebastian—perhaps Bridey and Mrs. Muspratt— keeping my name in their prayers; or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, he won't quite despair of me in the end.†
p. 393.6
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)