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名詞

underhope (countable and uncountable, plural underhopes)

1. A lowered expectation or hope.
   • 1896, Prosser Hall Frye, The Substance of His House, page 44:

     Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries
     And the great stedfast underhope that never dies.

   • 1973, James Gibson, Let the Poet Choose, page 55:

     Yesterday they went with underhopes of home
     And mostly glad to go - how impotent to save […]

   • 2005, The Thomas Hardy Journal, volumes 21-22, page 183:

     He also has a greater hope, what he might have called a tremulous underhope: that the neighbours who say that 'he hears it not now' might be mistaken.

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