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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of despairs in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of despairs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of despairs in a Sentence

  1. Albert Camus:

    He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

  2. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973:

    Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

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