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Definition of Despairing
1. Adjective. Arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope. "Her desperate screams"
Definition of Despairing
1. a. Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.
Definition of Despairing
1. Adjective. Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of despair) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despairing
1. despair [v] - See also: despair
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despairing
Literary usage of Despairing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"... again in an instant his bitter and despairing thoughts, their cries arising
unbroken in a hymn of thanksgiving. Our broken cries and mournful lays Rise ..."
2. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"Wherein are contained the despairing verses of the dead shepherd, with other
unlooked-for -matters. ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1921)
"... THE despairing LOVER. Distracted with care For Phyllis the fair, Since nothing
could move her, Poor Damon, her lover, Resolves in despair No longer to ..."
4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... and the endurance of incredible hardships, " the hopes of wealth and conquest
were at an end," and, coming to an arm of the sea, Narvaez, despairing of ..."
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