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self-despair

Noun

Meaning

self-despair (uncountable)

Despair about oneself or one's own actions or behaviour. [from 17th c.]

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. George Eliot

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