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Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless. examples
present participle and gerund of despair examples
plural despairings
A mood or display of despair. quotations examples
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.
1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], book second, page 103