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ˈwanhope, n. and a. Obs. exc. arch.
Also 3–4 wane-, 4 won-, Sc. van-, 4–5 whan-, 5 wann-, 6–7 wanne-; 4 -hop, 5 -hoppe.
[f. wan- + hope n.1 Cf. MLG., MDu. wanhope (mod.Du. -hoop), whence MSw. vanhop, MDa. vanhob. Cf. unhope.]
A. n.
1. Hopelessness, despair.
In early use chiefly, despair of salvation. Hence often in amatory compositions which imitate religious language.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6832 Is men as in wanhope wende hom aȝen bliue. a1300Cursor M. 25769 Þou sinful, be þan war wit-all In wreche wanhop þat þou ne fall. Ibid. 28345 Þat has don me for to fall in wane-hope. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5170 Sloghenes, hyt wyl þe grope To brynge þe yn-to whanhope. c1320Cast. Love 951 Ne beo þou in wonhope non. c1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 981 Fiue arowis were of other gise..The thridde of hem was clepe Shame. The fourthe, Wanhope cleped is. 139.― Pars. T. ⁋693 (Egerton MS.) Wanhope, þat is, dispeire of the mercy of god. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 32 Her of come the Englysshe hope & comfort; & to the Iresshe, dred & wanhope. c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 28 Yt wedded folk of wanhope shuld noght be Trowing the stat sauvable of onely virginitee. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) 21 He wente out of the oracle..al bare of gladnes and al oppressyd and enuironed wyth wanhope cam to his folk. c1518Skelton Magnyf. 2337 There is no man may synne more mortally Than of Wanhope thrughe the vnhappy wayes, By Myschefe to breuyate and shorten his dayes. a1542Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 59 Renewyng with my sute my payne, My wanhope with your stedfastnesse. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent 68 They..were driuen in the end, to giue ouer in the plain field, for very dispaire, wanhope, and weerinesse. 1861Temple Bar Dec. 151 Wan-hope had weighed my spirit to the dust. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iii. 279 And [ed. 1903 But] creeping wanhope did he still withstand. 1894― Wood beyond World 221 Two days he battled thus with storm & blindness, & wanhope of his life.
¶2. Erroneous uses.
†a. = Vain hope.
There is an apparent instance in the edd. of Douglas æn. i. vi. 82, but the Camb. MS. has with vaynhope [L. vana spe].
1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 145 Hoppe is a ryghtfull tryste for a ryghtfull Werke, i-put be-twen wanhoppe and dysspayre, or presompsion of goodis to come aftyr to be hadde, And of illis to come afftyr to be Enchued. a1548Hall Chron., Rich. III, 48 That they should brynge her yf yt were possible into some wanhope, or as men saie into a fooles paradise. 1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly H ij, A few yeres haue they spente yet, in great wanhope, and pleasure [L. summa cum voluptate]. a1565― tr. Boeth. i. met. vii. 22 in Q. Eliz. Englishings 158 Wan hope forbere [L. spem fugato]. 1570Levins Manip. 170/4 Wanhope, falsa spes. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iii. 114 b, Suffer not your selues to be abused by fables and trifling toyes, neither be you carried away with a Wanhope. 1593G. Harvey New Let. B, A wan, or windy Hope, is a notable breake-necke vnto itselfe.
†b. In late 16th c. and early 17th c. writers wan hope (two words) seems to be used for ‘faint hope’, as if containing wan a. Obs.
1558in Froude Hist. Eng. (1870) VI. 80 [There was but] a wan hope of recovering Calais. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. (1625) 93 The intollerable woes wherein I lived..might have kindled in me some wan hope one day to have found an hour so happy wherein by a right conceit..our natural care might in some sort or other have been renued. 1589Lodge Scillaes Metam. B 3 b, I curse fond Loue and Fortune durelesse, Wan hope my weale, my trust but bad aduenture. 1590Sidney Arcadia ii. iii. (1912) 164 My sheepe are thoughts,..My sheepehooke is wanne hope, which all upholdes. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World Wond. i. xxvi. 213 At last he remembered that the king had often shewed mercy on malefactors, and thereupon conceiuing some wanne hope, he was euer harping vpon that string. 1610W. Folkingham Feudigr. i. x. 28 And though the small show of winter verdure giues wanne hope, yet his faire May⁓florish reuiues the drooping spirits of the doubtful and wauering experimenter, with ful assurance of a rich vesture for haruest. 1612J. Davies (Heref.) Muse's Sacrif. (Grosart) 12/1 My Soule dismai'd, not knowing where to flee, With hands of Hope (wan Hope) at thee doth graspe. 1648G. Daniel Eclog iv. 169 This, his last Refuge, a wan hope, to bring Himselfe to former Glories of a Kinge.
†B. adj. [Cf. MSw. vanhopa adj.] That has no hope, despairing. Obs.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. xii. 4–16 Suffer it, not with heauye heartes, as men that are wanhope [later edd. in wanhope, in dispaire], but [etc.].
Hence † ˈwanhope v. [= MLG. wanhopen, MSw. vanhopa, MDa. vanhobe] to despair. † wanhoping vbl. n. † wanhopefully adv., despairingly. † wanhopely a., hopeless.
a1300Cursor M. 25820 Þai..wines for þair mikel sin neuer to merci for to win, and suagat for þair wanhopping þai fall wit-vten vp-couering. c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 16 He was neuer whan-hopefully argh, ne aferd, ne amayed of hert. Ibid. 88 In the man of blode, the blode shall aryse, & wan⁓hoply shal hys pynsynge be. 13..Celestin 22 in Anglia I. 68 Hadde a man neuere so myche mys wroughte, To godes mercy wanhope he nought. |