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† unhope Obs. exc. poet. [un-1 12. Cf. MDu. onthope, and wanhope n.] Lack of hope; despair.
a1225Ancren R. 8 Þet ȝe muhten sone uallen..in desperaunce, þet is, in unhope. a1240Sawles Warde in O.E. Hom. I. 251 Ant tis ilke unhope is ham meast pine. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes H iv, Take not vnhope of that, that thou maist not amende. 1895–6Hardy Poems of Past & Present (1902) 214 But death will not appal One who, past doubtings all, Waits in unhope. |