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unˈhoped, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongehopet, MDu. and Du. -hoopt.]
†1.
a. Unexpected, unforeseen. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. vi. (1876) 108 What so euere þou mayst sen þat is don in this world vnhoped, or vnwenyd. 1382Wyclif Wisd. xvii. 14 Forsothe to them sodeyn and vnhopid drede ouercam. a1575tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden 36) 185 [He was] amazed at this unhoped danger. 1697Dryden æneis x. 99 Did God, or Man, your Fav'rite Son advise, With War unhop'd the Latians to surprise?
†b. Unconceived, unimagined. Obs.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 15 Treuly it is not of gods vn⁓power þat he may not þe tech hym-self als he is in hym-self, bot for hys vnhopyd worþines.
2. Not anticipated with hope or desire; not hoped for. (Cf. 3.)
1382Wyclif Wisd. v. 2 Thei..shulmerueilen in the sodeynesse of the vnhopid helthe. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 19 Paul,..from a cruell and bloody enemy conuerted to a new man, with sodaine and vnhoped change. a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1629) 426 His other prisoners..he found increased by this vnhoped meanes. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 172 What are thy Newes?.. Margaret. Mine such, as fill my heart with vnhop'd ioyes. 1660Dryden Astræa Redux 140 The Prince of Peace would..confer A Gift un⁓hop'd without the price of war. 1697― æneis v. 262 Chance aids their daring with unhop'd success. 1721Ramsay Love's Cure i, He spies A ship, which gives unhop'd surprise. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 175 Kerme, who waited her Answer,..was so much transported at the unhoped Compliance of it, that [etc.]. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 31 (1822) I. 245 What unhoped courage reanimates me!
b. In quasi-adverbial construction: Unexpectedly, beyond expectation.
1667Milton P.L. x. 348 To Hell he now return'd, And..unhop't Met who to meet him came, his Ofspring dear. 1734Thomson Liberty iii. 453 The power resign'd, And all unhop'd the commonwealth restor'd, Amaz'd the public. 1791Cowper Odyssey v. 491 Though Jove hath given me to behold, Unhop'd, the land again. 1810Scott Lady of L. v. xvii, He falter'd thanks to Heaven for life, Redeem'd, unhoped, from desperate strife. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry II. 328 Like sons who meet unhop'd a father.
3. Not hoped († or looked) for.
1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Andriæ iii. iv, I was the cause of the marriage that shall be made to day, euen quite vnhoped for of the old man. 1622Fletcher Love's Cure i. ii, A Temple..where I may give thanks For this unhop'd for blessing. 1697Dryden æneis ix. 939 Suddenly th' un⁓hop'd for News was brought. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 525 When..These eyes at last behold the unhoped-for coast. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xvi. vi, Blifil having obtained this unhoped for acquiescence. 1825Scott Betrothed Concl., Her unhoped-for union with Damian. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 406 These unhoped-for circumstances opened a new field to our explorations. |