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Definition of Desperation
1. Noun. A state in which all hope is lost or absent. "Courage born of desperation"
2. Noun. Desperate recklessness. "It was a policy of desperation"
Definition of Desperation
1. n. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
Definition of Desperation
1. Noun. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. ¹
2. Noun. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desperation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desperation
Literary usage of Desperation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Civil War in America by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"Desperation- or тн> ... desperation, and did not willingly relinquish the victory,
which they had supposed was so easily within their grasp. ..."
2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"Then beware how you goad an insulted but magnanimous people to deeds of desperation !
The Rev. Robert N. Anderson, also a member of the Presbyterian Church, ..."
3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Exiled from land, they cast themselves in desperation on the sea. But no one can
behold this ocean-city without perceiving that those exiles were rewarded ..."
4. Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889: In which the History of the Attempts to by Terence Vincent Powderly (1889)
"... and politician silent on the causes which drove men to t saloon and desperation
in the Pennsylvania coal regions—Monopoly and liquor twin evils—Attempts ..."
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