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self-despair

noun

self-despair

noun

Etymology From self- + despair.

1

Despair about oneself or one's own actions or behaviour.

  • Her flame […] soared after some illimitable satisfaction, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self.1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Prelude
  • Tripping herself up with sadder and more and more neurotic acts of self-despair.2007, Alexander Theroux, chapter 45, in Laura Warholic:

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