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单词 wantroking
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wantrokingn.

Forms: Middle English wantrokiynge, Middle English wantrokynge.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: wantroke v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < wantroke v. + -ing suffix1. Compare slightly earlier wantruke n. and also wanhope n. Perhaps compare also earlier troking n. at troke v. Derivatives.
Obsolete.
Despair; false or mistaken expectation. Cf. wantroke v.
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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
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 155 Loke þat þou ne go nauȝt onder Þorȝ wantrokynge.
c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 265 Þer ne is non hope of guode, non wantrokiynge of kueade.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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