wanhopeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɒnhəʊp/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈwɑnhoʊp/

名詞

wanhope (usually uncountable, plural wanhopes)

1. (UK dialectal or archaic) Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.

   Synonyms: despond, unhope; see also Thesaurus:hopelessness

   • 1898, Georgiana Lea Morril, editor, Speculum Gy de Warewyke: An English Poem, page 57:

     Wanhope: a fine English word, suggesting unhope of Langland's story of the cats and the mice, and described in Ipotis, […]

   • 1991, Vladimir Ivir, Damir Kalogjera, editors, Languages in Contact and Contrast, →ISBN, page 411:

     If […] such good old English words as inwit and wanhope should be rehabilitated (and they have been pushing up their heads for thirty years), we should gain a great deal. (Collected essays, 1928, III.68)

   • 2007, Michael D. C. Drout, J.R.R. Tolkien encyclopedia: scholarship and critical assessment:

     Both despair and wanhope are generally defined as a complete loss or lack of hope and being overcome by sense of futility or defeat.

2. Vain hope; overconfidence; delusion.

   Synonyms: pie in the sky, pipe dream

参照

• Middle English Dictionary Entry - wanhope