Word of the Day: WANHOPE

ETYMOLOGY
from wan- (a prefix approximately equivalent to un- or mis-)  + hope

EXAMPLE
“…& is men as in wanhope wende hom aȝen bliue
So þat ich hopie to god pais þe wule ich am aliue
Messagers to denemarch sone isend were
& as þe king adde ised al clene hii founde þere…”

From: The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, 1297