Wan"hope` (?), n. [AS. wan, won, deficient, wanting + hopa hope: cf. D. wanhoop. . See Wane, and Hope.]
Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Chaucer.
© Webster 1913.
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