wanhope
CIDE DICTIONARY
wanhope,
n. [AS.
wan,
won, deficient, wanting +
hopa hope: cf. D.
wanhoop.
. See
Wane, and
Hope.].
Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
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