Syn. -- Desperation; despondency; hopelessness.
De*spair"er (?), n. One who despairs.
De*spair"ful (?), a. Hopeless. [Obs.] Spenser.
De*spair"ing, a. Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
De*spar"ple (?), v. t. & i. [OF. desparpeillier.] To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.
De*spatch" (?), n. & v. Same as Dispatch.
De`spe*cif"i*cate (?), v. t. [Pref. de- (intens.) + specificate.] To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.]
Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated.
Fitzed. Hall.
De*spec`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. Discrimination.
De*spect" (?), n. [L. despectus, fr. despicere. See Despite, n.] Contempt. [R.] Coleridge.
De*spec"tion (?), n. [L. despectio.] A looking down; a despising. [R.] W. Montagu.