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. Piers Plowman. “Wanhope and distress.” Chaucer.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.