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Definition of Despairers
1. despairer [n] - See also: despairer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despairers
Literary usage of Despairers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All & None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1896)
"And that we despairers have now come into thy cave, and already despair no more —
it is merely a sign and omen that better ones are on the way unto thee. ..."
2. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage, and of a by John Ross (1835)
"quality, and course; though there were still some despairers who maintained that
it was only an iceberg. No time was however lost: the boats were launched, ..."
3. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1846)
"... despairers in the ladder of works, whose base rests far, far back, all enveloped
in the mists of eternity, on the outstretched hand of the naked Adam ..."
4. The Book of Isaiah by George Adam Smith (1893)
"To HIE despairers OF THE LORD. From history we pass back to nature in ver.
26, which forms a transition, the language growing steadier from the impetuosity ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"This last sentence contains an admission which deserves to be pondered by some
of our modern despairers of the republic. Religion, politics, education ..."
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