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

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hope delusion despair delusive faint Obs piers plowman want chaucer distress archaic Britain dialectal hopelessness lack plural vain

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