mishope
verb/mɪsˈhəʊp/
Etymology
From Middle English mishopen, equivalent to mis- + hope (verb). Cognate with Middle Dutch mishopen, Middle High German missehoffen, Middle Swedish mishoppa.
- inherited from mishopen
Definitions
To fail to hope (in)
To fail to hope (in); hope amiss; lose hope; despair.
- This tree was defective in both, yielding nothing but an empty shade to the mishoping traveller.
despair
despair; a hope not realised.
- I was nearhand in utter mishope.
- People who are older must know that as life advances it is only a series of hopes and mishopes with something infinite pulling them toward the end.
- “Mishope?” What sort of a name was that? The ton was prone to bestowing nicknames on people he knew, but mishope?
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mishope. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA