Category:Wanhope

Wan"hope`, n. Etym: [as. wan, won, deficient, wanting + hopa hope: Cf. D. wanhoop. . See wane, and hope.]

Defn: want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [obs.] Piers plowman. "wanhope and distress." Chaucer.