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Dispair

Dispair \Dis*pair"\, v. t. To separate (a pair). [R.]

I have . . . dispaired two doves.
--Beau. & Fl.

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dispair

vb. (context transitive English) To separate (a pair).

Usage examples of "dispair".

In the midst of my dispair Jane asked for a Sandwitch and thus releived my mind.

These once mighty strongholds were known to be in dispair, moldering, and weakly garrisoned, yet equipped with enough cannon, shot, and other munitions to enable the Americans at Cambridge to maintain their siege.

The moaning wail became a howl of dispair that matched the screaming of the infant.

Kati would rush back to her apartments to find Yesui sprawled unconscious on her own bed, Weimeng in tears, wringing her hands in dispair, and then she would have to sit down and go after her daughter through the gong-shi-jie to the mother ship where Huomeng was supervising the loading of building materials on still another freighter bound for Tengri-Nayon.

Shadow ringed eyes and blacker soul Dull and expressionless pupils show a broken spirit Her ragged clothes, Bare feet are darkened with soot Her sleep is haunted with bloody images Scenes from her nightmares plague her Pale and boney face reveals red raw cheeks from crying Tear stained skin Drowning in a sea of dispair Choking on a wedge of grief No river of tears could wash away the pain.

That was a good thing, their presence leavening the fatigued dispair that showed in the aspects of some.

Damon and Thyrsis, Phyllis and Chloe had been fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess.