Hypertext Webster Gateway: "desperation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Desperation \Des`per*a"tion\, n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF.
desperation.]
1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up
of hope.
This desperation of success chills all our industry.
--Hammond.
2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of
hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
In the desperation of the moment, the officers even
tried to cut their way through with their swords.
--W. Irving.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
desperation
n 1: a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out
badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last
minute" [syn: {despair}]
2: desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"
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