单词 | desperance |
释义 | † desperance Obs. Also dis-, -aunce. [a. OF. desperance, f. desperer to despair: see -ance, and cf. the by-form desesperance.] Despair.
a1225Ancr. R. 8 Ȝe muhten sone uallen..in desperaunce, þet is, in unhope & in unbileaue forte beon iboruwen. c1400Rom. Rose (B.) 1872 So nigh I drow to desperaunce, I rought of dethe, ne of lyf. 1481Caxton Godfrey 268 They had longe don alle theyr power And the werke was not moche amended, but were falle in a desperaunce. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 183 His Name hecht Disperance. Ibid. i. 790 Ȝone waryit wicht Hecht Desperance. |

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