Synonyms for despair of
de·spair of

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1. despair of

   Synonyms:
   distrust, doubt, doubt, dread, fear, recall, recollect, remember

   Antonyms:
   anticipate, apprehend, expect, forecast, foretaste, hope, look forward to

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1. Francis Bacon:

   Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

2. Leonard Cohen:

   Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

3. Dax Ward:

   Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

4. Francois de Fenelon:

   Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

5. Edith Wharton:

   I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.