Definitions | wanhope |
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- hopelessness, despair
- Late C14: Wel ou�te I sterve in and distresse. / Farwel my lif, my lust, and my gladnesse! " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Tale", Canterbury Tales
Etymology: From wan- + hope.
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