Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English, equivalent to wan- + hope. Cognate with Scots wanhop, wanhope ("wanhope, despair"), West Frisian wanhope ("wanhope, despair"), Dutch wanhoop ("despair"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The suspense began to diminish into "wanhope" or despair; and the brothers and sisters continued to say that they were sorry above all for Phyllis, whose gentle sweetness had made her one with them.”
“wanhope' than any of them; but they had to live on, and rise morning after morning without expecting any intelligence, unable to do anything but pray for those who might be in perils unknown.”
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
“And she hath found me my love, thy brother Arthur, and delivered him from unwit and wanhope; and she it is who drew all you hither unto us, and who delivered you from the felons who had mastered you.”
“And now I will go away for a little, but I shall be on thine errands; for first I shall tell the mistress that thou art lying here shackled and in all wanhope; and next, by the will and command of her, I am to see that thou be well fed and nourished today that thou mayst be the stronger for tomorrow.”
“I was just thinkling upon that, swees Mooksey, but, for all the rime on my raisins, if I connow make my submission, I can-nos give you up, the Gripes whimpered from nethermost of his wanhope.”
“And there be certain men in every town that serve of none other thing; and they clepe them cadeberiz, that is to say, the fools of wanhope.”
“So stood they there both awhile in wanhope sorrowing one with other.”
“Ah, Bors, discomfort you not, nor fall into no wanhope; for I shall tell you tidings such as they be, for truly he is dead.”
“Oh Harolde, heere forstraughteynge [53] wanhope [54] lies.”
“Ah, Bors, discomfort you not, nor fall into no wanhope, for I shall tell you tidings such as they be, for truly he is dead.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wanhope’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 98 more...
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 83 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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mountainous words
promontory, montane, amount, ultramontane, monticule, prominent, mountain, eminent, immanent, permanent, imminent, gorgeous and 3 more...
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precious
adorable sounding words and whatnot.
finikin, slimikin, tinkershere, ateknia, kindergraph, skygodlin, amoret, belles-lettres, bellwether, bonnibel, sylph, basorexia and 54 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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complex psychological states
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Why, God?
Tweets
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sionnach As far as I can see, the wan hope that Argentina have o' makin' it into next year's World Cup is if they win all their remaining qualleyfying matches. Sep 13, 2009
bilby "Sir, said he, I seek my brother that I saw within a while beaten with two knights. Ah, Bors discomfort you not, nor fall into no wanhope, for I shall tell you tidings such as they be, for truly he is dead."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'. Sep 13, 2009