Wanhope

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wanhope \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. "Wanhope and distress."
     --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]