wanhope

noun /ˈwɒnhəʊp/

1. Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.

   archaic, uncountable

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

2. Vain hope; overconfidence; delusion.

   uncountable

Where it comes from

From Middle English wanhope, equivalent to wan- + hope. Cognate with Scots wanhop, wanhope (“wanhope, despair”), West Frisian wanhope (“wanhope, despair”), Dutch wanhoop (“despair”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry wanhope (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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