单词 | self-despair |
释义 | self-despairn. Despair about oneself or one's actions. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [noun] > of oneself self-despair1626 1626 E. Huit Anat. of Conscience i. 61 Feares of Gods displeasure haue driuen thee to selfe-despayre. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 526 An holy self-despair and humble trembling dependence on Divine grace. 1742 C. Wesley Wrestling Jacob viii. Hymns 116 I am weak But confident in Self-despair. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xv, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 245 No human soul had..understood her self-despair. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 130/2 The widespread feeling of self-despair and the longing for divine illumination. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience 302 The impulse..is..far too immediate and spontaneous an expression of self-despair and anxiety. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlv. 725 Tripping herself up with sadder and more and more neurotic acts of self-despair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626 |
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