Meaning of wanhope | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
   UK, archaic, dialectal, uncountable, usually
2. Vain hope; overconfidence; delusion.
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“Wanhope: a fine English word, suggesting unhope of Langland's story of the cats and the mice, and described in Ipotis,[…]”

“If[…]such good old English words as inwit and wanhope should be rehabilitated (and they have been pushing up their heads for thirty years), we should gain a great deal. (Collected essays, 1928, III.68)”

“Both despair and wanhope are generally defined as a complete loss or lack of hope and being overcome by sense of futility or defeat.”

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