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desperate

Meaning of “desperate”

Without or past hope of relief.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesCawdrey 1604Webster 1828
2 occurrences2 verses2 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Job 6:26

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Every verse containing “desperate”

KJV PCE
Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 6:26 · retained source text

Do ye imagine to reproue words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as winde?

Isaiah 17:11
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 17:11 · retained source text

In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seede to flourish: but the haruest shall be a heape in the day of griefe, and of desperate sorrow.

1611 marginal noteOr, remoued in the day of inheritance, and there shalbe deadly sorrow.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Hopeless; despaired of; lost beyond hope of recovery; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn. Furious, as a man in despair.

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