a hopeless illness

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• hope´less|ness — hope|less «HOHP lihs», adjective. 1. feeling no hope; without hope: »He was disappointed so often that he became hopeless. Alas for him…Who, hopeless, lays his dead away (John Greenleaf Whittier). 2. giving no hope; desperate: »hopeless illness.… …   Useful english dictionary

• hope´less|ly — hope|less «HOHP lihs», adjective. 1. feeling no hope; without hope: »He was disappointed so often that he became hopeless. Alas for him…Who, hopeless, lays his dead away (John Greenleaf Whittier). 2. giving no hope; desperate: »hopeless illness.… …   Useful english dictionary

• hope|less — «HOHP lihs», adjective. 1. feeling no hope; without hope: »He was disappointed so often that he became hopeless. Alas for him…Who, hopeless, lays his dead away (John Greenleaf Whittier). 2. giving no hope; desperate: »hopeless illness.… …   Useful english dictionary

• Francis Adams (writer) — Francis William Lauderdale Adams (27 September 1862 – 4 September 1893) was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life.Early lifeAdams was born in Malta the son of Andrew Leith… …   Wikipedia

• Adams, Francis, W.L. — (1862 1893)    Novelist, was b. at Malta, and ed. at schools at Shrewsbury and in Paris. In 1882 he went to Australia, and was on the staff of The Sydney Bulletin. In 1884 he publ. his autobiographical novel, Leicester, and in 1888 Songs of the… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

• Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe — Infobox Person name = Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe image size = 180px caption = Virginia Poe, as painted after her death birth date = birth date|1822|8|22|mf=y birth date = August 22, 1822 birth place = Baltimore, Maryland death date = death date and …   Wikipedia

• Disease — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disease >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disease disease Sgm: N 1 illness illness sickness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 ailing ailing &c.??? all the ills that flesh is heir to =>(Hamlet) Sgm: N 1 morbidity morbidity …   English dictionary for students

• mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …   Universalium

• Crusades — a series of military expeditions between the 11th and 14th centuries, in which armies from the Christian countries of Europe tried to get back the Holy Land (= what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt) from the Muslims. The soldiers who… …   Universalium

• ISAIAH — (Heb. יְשַׁעְיָה ,יְשַׁעְיָהוּ Salvation of YHWH ), one of the eight books (as the Rabbis and the Masorah count them) of the Nevi im, or Prophets, the second division of the Hebrew canon (see bible , Canon). INTRODUCTION Outside the Book of… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium