Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
present participle and gerund of despair
A mood or display of despair.
But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdröckh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.
From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.
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