Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who despairs or is without hope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who despairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
despairs .
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Examples
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Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.
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"Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go?" and the flower-piece that follows; by that other single masterpiece,
Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889
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He is a "too quick despairer," and his despair is more illogical than even a lover's has a right to be.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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'I am not such a despairer of ethnology as some ethnologists would have me.'
Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878
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