† desesperancedesesperauncen.
Obsolete.
Despairing, despair.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [noun] > loss of hope
desperance?c1225
wanhopinga1300
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desperationc1366
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c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1258 (1307) That lay..By-twixen hope and derk desesperaunce.
c1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 68 His suerte he putteth in disesperaunce.
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