despair
noun
loss of hope; hopelessness.
despairer
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a word derived from
despair.
Example Sentences
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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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.
From Across the Plains by Stevenson, Robert Louis
I listen to you, you know, but I'm a despairer.
From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
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 Whitman, Walt
He is a "too quick despairer," and his despair is more illogical than even a lover's has a right to be.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
