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mishoping

mishoping is the present participle and gerund of mishope.

Meaning of mishope

Verb

mishope (third-person singular simple present mishopes, present participle mishoping, simple past and past participle mishoped)

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete, transitive) To fail to hope (in); hope amiss; lose hope; despair.
    • This tree was defective in both, yielding nothing but an empty shade to the mishoping traveller.1846, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the historical passages of the Old and New Testament

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Questions about mishoping

What is mishoping the present participle and gerund of?
Mishoping is the present participle and gerund of mishope.

Words near mishoping in the dictionary

  1. mishoon
  2. mishoons
  3. mishope
  4. mishoped
  5. mishopes
  6. mishoping
  7. mishoused
  8. mishpachah
  9. mishpocha
  10. mishpochas
  11. mishpoche

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mishoping (page history and authors); mishope (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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