DESPAIR

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake.

2.
v.

To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. [Obs.] I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted. Milton.

3.
v.

To cause to despair. [Obs.] Sir W. Williams.

4.
n.

Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair. Keble. Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair. Macaulay.

5.
n.

That which is despaired of. "The mere despair of surgery he cures." Shak.

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