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despairer|dɪˈspɛərə(r)|
[f. despair v. + -er1.]
One who despairs or is without hope.
1620J. Pyper tr. Hist. Astrea i. ii. 28 These great despairers. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. ccxlii, He cheers the fearful..And makes despairers hope for good success. c1807H. C. Robinson Let. 7 June in Diary, etc. (1869) I. xi. 236 A man of talent, but a political despairer, an ex-jacobin. 1867M. Arnold Poems, Thyrsis vii, Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? |