despairer

Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.

I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my neck, By God, you shall not go down!

But through all this his sub-conscious mind was not that of a despairer; on the contrary, there is something of a kind of lawless faith in thus parleying with such immense and immemorial brutalities.