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despairing

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɛə.ɹɪŋ/ / /dɪˈspɛː.ɹɪŋ/ / /dɪˈspɛɹ.ɪŋ/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. present participle and gerund of despair