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respair

respair noun: fresh hope; recovery from despair.

Noun

respair (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Fresh hope; recovery from despair.
    • Springing from his seat on a fallen tree, where he had sunk in his respair, he cried in genuine gladness:1907, Roy Rockwood, “Put to the Test”, in Jack North's Treasure Hunt, Or, Daring Adventures in South America, Chatterton-Peck Company, page 105
    • For a moment he remained sunk in a kind of dull and apathetic respair.1914, George Allan England, ““You Speak English!””, in Darkness and Dawn: Illustrated, Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Small, Maynard, and Company, page 339
    Antonyms:
    despair

Verb

respair (third-person singular simple present respairs, present participle respairing, simple past and past participle respaired)

  1. (obsolete) To recover from despair.

Antonyms of respair

Forms of respair

third-person singular presentrespairs
present participlerespairing
past participlerespaired
pastrespaired

Questions about respair

What does respair mean?
Respair means fresh hope; recovery from despair.
What part of speech is respair?
Respair can be a noun or a verb.

Words near respair in the dictionary

  1. respackling
  2. respade
  3. respaded
  4. respades
  5. respading
  6. respair
  7. respaired
  8. respairing
  9. respairs
  10. respake
  11. respark

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