Meaning of underhope | Babel Free

Definitions

A lowered expectation or hope.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries And the great stedfast underhope that never dies.”

“Yesterday they went with underhopes of home And mostly glad to go - how impotent to save […]”

“He also has a greater hope, what he might have called a tremulous underhope: that the neighbours who say that 'he hears it not now' might be mistaken.”

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