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 A Christmas Sermon 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
‘I am not such a despairer of ethnology as some ethnologists would have me.’
From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang
Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.
From Across the Plains 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
