despairedadj.

/dɪˈspɛːd/

Etymology: < despair v., corresponding in use to Old French desperé , desesperé , Latin dēspērātus : see desperate adj., n., and adv.

†1. In despair, despairing, desperate. to be despaired, to be desperate or in despair, to be without hope, to despair. (Frequent 14–16th centuries.) Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [adjective]

ormodeOE

ortroweOE

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wanhope1549

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hopelessa1616

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au désespoir1766

unanticipative1847

unhopeful1850

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > despair [verb (intransitive)]

ortrowOE

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to be despairedc1400

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to sit beside the saddle1563

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 169 Þenne bi-speke þe spakest dispayred wel nere.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 235 He was despeyred, no thyng dorste he seye.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 92/1 The gloryouse vyrgyne Marye whyche is confoorte to dysconforted and hope to dispayred.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 425 b/2 To thende that for their synnes..they shold not be despeyred.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xvi. f. ix She beynge dispayred of the recouery of her astate.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxliii. [cxxxix.] 397 They shulde haue been so sore dyspayred and dyscoraged.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 19 He dyed..in a phrenesye, and as one dispared.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 27 O in hou many things haw I offended..but ȝit I am nocht despered.

†2.

a. Of conditions, circumstances, etc.: Characterized by absence of hope; hopeless, desperate.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of states or events > to be despaired of

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Micah i. 9 For plage, or wounde, therof is dispeirid.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 376 All though the weder be despeired.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 104 b/1 He toke it as all dyspayred and wold haue slayn hym self.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 9 Men in despaired states are restored to good hope.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 488 Relieving the dispeired cause of his distressed Church.

†b. Of persons: Desperate, reckless. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless > reckless on account of despair

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1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxv. 29 These despaired [v.r. dispard] birdis of Beliall.

†3. Despaired of; no longer hoped for; cf. despair v. 3. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of states or events

deplorate1544

deplored1559

hopeless1566

despaired1597

insperable1623

despaired of1635

gone duck1830

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxi. 285 Two singular, and almost despaired deliverances.

1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode lv, in Steps to Temple 69 Of th' Hebrewes royall stemme (That old dry stocke) a despair'd branch is sprung.

1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. 293 Sometimes..more certain is a dispaired then a presumed Victory.

4. despaired of: see despair v. 1.

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