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wanhopes

wanhopes is the plural of wanhope.

Meaning of wanhope

Noun

wanhope (usually uncountable, plural wanhopes)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, usually) Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
    • Wanhope: a fine English word, suggesting unhope of Langland's story of the cats and the mice, and described in Ipotis,[…]1898, Georgiana Lea Morril, editor, Speculum Gy de Warewyke: An English Poem, page 57
  2. (usually) Vain hope; overconfidence; delusion.

Questions about wanhopes

What is wanhopes the plural of?
Wanhopes is the plural of wanhope.

Words near wanhopes in the dictionary

  1. wangun
  2. wanguns
  3. Wangus
  4. Wangyi
  5. wanhope
  6. wanhopes
  7. wanhorn
  8. Wanhsien
  9. Wanhua
  10. waniand
  11. wanigan

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