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Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

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  1. n. Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
  2. Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. "Wanhope and distress." Chaucer.
  3. Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion.[Obs.] Piers Plowman. "Wanhope and distress." Chaucer.
  4. wanhope (plural wanhopes) (Britain dialectal or archaic) Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair. Vain hope; delusion.