despairinglyadv.
1. In a despairing manner; hopelessly.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [adverb]
wanhopefullyc1425
desperately1552
despairfully1604
hopelessly1616
despairinglya1634
lostly1660
unhopefully1840
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 167 Rather prophetically than despairingly he [St. Thomas] desired to see them [Christ's wounds].
1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xvi. 180 Yielding, with an inward groan, to fate, Despairingly.
1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel II. 5 ‘How can I convince you?’..she asked despairingly.
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1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 414 The shopman was discovered..despairingly drunk.
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adv.a1634- to have a routine pat
- to have a run for one's money
- to have a run-in
- to have a run-in with
- to have a runin
- to have a runin with
- to have a saying to
- to have a scantling of
- to have a scent
- to have a screw
- to have a screw at
- to have a screw loose
- to have a see
- to have a serve of
- to have a set on
- to have a set on a person
- to have a share in
- to have a sheep's eye
- to have a shit
- to give faith to
- to give faith unto
- to give fidelity
- to give fifteen, etc, and a bisque
- to give fight
- to give fire