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wanhope

noun · Middle English

Hope, gone slightly pale.

Despair; the loss of all hope.

In the wild

“A wanhope settled over the house in November.”

Origin

Middle English, from Old English wan-, 'lacking', + hope.

Sources·Middle English Dictionary/Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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