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† deˈsesperance, -aunce Obs.
Also dis-.
[a. OF. désespérance (12th c. in Hatzf.) = Pr. desesperansa, a Romanic compound of des-, L. dis- + esperantia, -za, -ce, f. esperare, esperer:—L. spērāre to hope.]
Despairing, despair.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1258 (1307) That lay..By-twixen hope and derk desesperaunce. c1460Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 68 His suerte he putteth in disesperaunce. |