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Webster 1913 Edition

Wanhope

Wan′hopeˊ

,
Noun.
[AS.
wan
,
won
, deficient, wanting +
hopa
hope: cf. D.
wanhoop
.
[GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK]
. See
Wane
, and
Hope
.]
Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
“Wanhope and distress.”
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wanhope

WANHOPE

,
Noun.
Want of hope. [Not used.]

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