despair
noun
loss of hope; hopelessness.
despairer
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a word derived from
despair.
Example Sentences
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Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.
From Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson
I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my neck, By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Here is a pleasant thought for the year's end or for the end of life: Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.
From A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson
But through all this his subconscious mind was not that of a despairer; on the contrary, there is something of a kind of lawless faith in thus parleying with such immense and immemorial brutalities.
From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
But through all this his sub-conscious mind was not that of a despairer; on the contrary, there is something of a kind of lawless faith in thus parleying with such immense and immemorial brutalities.
From Twelve Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
