despairing
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɛə.ɹɪŋ/ / /dɪˈspɛː.ɹɪŋ/ / /dɪˈspɛɹ.ɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.
- Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
“He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.
- A mood or display of despair.
“But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdröckh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of despair