despair
noun
loss of hope; hopelessness.
have been despairing
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present perfect progressiveof despair.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Books are an index to a civilization's moral health, and for the last hundred years most of the world's great books have been despairing indictments of that civilization; diagnoses of its doom.
From Time Magazine Archive
