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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.

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De-spair′ing-ly

adv.

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De-spair′ing-ness

Noun.

ppr.

Giving up all hope or expectation.

despairing ‎(not comparable)

despairing

despairing ‎(plural despairings)

A mood or display of despair.
- Thomas Carlyle
  But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.