esperance

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Mais maintenant, d'etre quitte j'ai perdu l'esperance:

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  • I sommed that each person could esper—it was the fact they didn't, and would not, act accordingly to their esperance which gave me my difficulties. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
  • "'Ma plus douce esperance est de perdre l'espoir.'" —  Pelham — Volume 02
  • Said he, "O wicked Wazirs, shall a man of understanding renounce all esperance in Almighty Allah? —  Arabian nights. English
  • O son of Adam! what hath befooled thee in this long esperance? —  Arabian nights. English
  • This appears both in such words as "jouissance," "thesaurise," "esperance," "souvenance," "vatical" —  A History of Elizabethan Literature
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  1. Middle English esperaunce, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *spērantia, from Latin spērāns, spērant-, present participle of spērāre, to hope; see spē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English esperaunce, from Old French esperance, French espérance = Provencal esperansa = Spanish esperanza = Portuguese esperança = Italian speranza, hope, from Latin speran(t-)s, present participle of sperare, hope.
 

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