surrender oneself to despair
1surrender — sur•ren•der [[t]səˈrɛn dər[/t]] v. t. 1) to deliver up or yield (something) to the possession or power of another on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy[/ex] 2) to give (oneself) up, as to the police 3) to give (oneself) up …
2surrender — v 1. yield, deliver up, turn over, hand in, part with; render, remit; release, let go of, quit one s hold on, yield control of; relinquish, renounce, forsake, forgo, Law. disclaim; abdicate, resign, Chiefly Scot. demit; transfer, give over, cede …
3despair — n 1. hopelessness, disheartenment, dismay, discouragement; dejection, depression, despondency, slough of despond; defeatism, pessimism; resignation, resignedness. 2. gloom, melancholy, melancholia, misery, misera bleness, wretchedness, distress,… …
4Paul Tillich — Region Western philosophy Born August 20, 1886 (1886 08 20) Starzedd …
5Religion (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of religion Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas William Desmond Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–) seem like a mere aggregate of thinkers. Jaspers, a German thinker who coined the phrase Existenz… …
6literature — /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.… …
7SUICIDE — The duty of preserving life, including one s own, is one of the paramount injunctions of Judaism (see pikku aḥ nefesh ). The prohibition of suicide is a natural corollary to this, and yet it is nowhere explicitly forbidden in the Talmud. However …
8JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …
9Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
10W.E.B. Du Bois: What African Americans Want (1903) — ▪ Primary Source Although they came to represent divergent perspectives on civil rights, Booker T. Washington (Washington, Booker T) and W.E.B. Du Bois were the two leading African American spokesmen at the turn of the twentieth century.… …