† unhopen.
Obsolete exc. poetic.
Lack of hope; despair.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [noun]
forlornnessc825
unhope?c1225
wanhope1297
speir13..
wantrokingc1350
mishopea1400
desperacy1629
Slough of Despond1776
hopelessness1853
unhopefulness1868
?c1225 Ancrene Riwle (Cleo.: Scribe B) (1972) 7 Þet ȝe muhten sone..fallen in desesperance þet is inte in an vn hope.
a1240 Sawles Warde in Old Eng. Hom. I. 251 Ant tis ilke unhope is ham meast pine.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 67v Take not vnhope of that, that thou maist not amende.
1902 T. Hardy Poems Past & Present 214 But death will not appal One who, past doubtings all, Waits in unhope.
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