despair
/dɪˈspɛɚ/ nom B1En français : désespoir
- Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. · He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive.· My daughter's behavior drives me to despair.
- That which causes despair.
- That which is despaired of.
Pluriel despairs
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He did not even see the ocean, that terrible barrier against freedom, which the prisoners look upon with utter despair.
At last, about ten o’clock, and just as Dantès began to despair, steps were heard in the corridor, a key turned in the lock, the bolts creaked, the massy oaken door flew open, and a flood of light from two torches pervaded the apartment.
He had learned that Dantès had been taken to prison, and he had gone to all his friends, and the influential persons of the city; but the report was already in circulation that Dantès was arrested as a Bonapartist agent; and as the most sanguine looked upon any attempt of Napoleon to remount the throne as impossible, he met with nothing but refusal, and had returned home in despair, declaring that the matter was serious and that nothing more could be done.
The minister of police, giving way to an impulse of despair, was about to throw himself at the feet of Louis XVIII., who retreated a step and frowned.
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