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Wanhope

Wanhope \Wan"hope`\, 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. ``Wanhope and distress.''
--Chaucer.

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wanhope

n. (label en UK dialectal or archaic) Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.

Usage examples of "wanhope".

And with it icy wanhope hemmed me round so that my hands shook with cold.

The first wanhope is, in the mercy of God: the other is, that they think they might not long persevere in goodness.

The first wanhope cometh of that he deemeth that he sinned so highly and so oft, and so long hath lain in sin, that he shall not be saved.

Certes against that cursed wanhope should he think, that the passion of Jesus Christ is more strong for to unbind, than sin is strong for to bind.

He stood on the steps of Wanhope hospital in the white robes of a martyr, his hands locked together in a pair of silver handcuffs.

He stood in the middle of his cell in Wanhope Prison Hospital, whispering them to himself.

The prisoner is remanded to the psychiatric ward of Wanhope Hospital for observation.

From Wanhope Prison he had traveled underground, along a web of waterways that stretched for miles under the city.

He stood on the steps of Wanhope Prison, squinting myopically into the glare.

During the first months of the new government, the National Assembly of Charn met in a converted bathhouse behind Wanhope Prison.

The one behind Wanhope Prison had been the largest of the nine, a single great amphitheater of stone, windowless, but domed with milky glass.

It is not so long since you last heard it, in my cell in Wanhope Hospital.

They rested and went on, but the streets around Wanhope Prison had been barricaded.

Her cheeks were streaked with tears, but, though the eyes from which those had fallen were still brimming, they no longer showed the flat dullness set there by her hard and wanhope life.

Snow and the stranger, Wanhope, were carrying large packages wrapped in dark protective film.