esperance

See also: espérance, esperancé, and Esperance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French esperance (compare modern French espérance), from esperer (“to hope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛspəɹəns/

Noun

esperance (plural esperances)

1. (obsolete) Expectation, hope.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
     An esperance so obstinately strong,
     That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears

Anagrams

• præsence

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French esperance.

Noun

esperance f (plural esperances)

1. hope

Synonyms

• espoir

Descendants

• → English: esperance
• French: espérance

Old French

Alternative forms

• esperaunce
• sperance

Etymology

esperer +‎ -ance, possibly corresponding to Vulgar Latin spērāntia, from Latin spērāns.

Noun

esperance oblique singular, f (oblique plural esperances, nominative singular esperance, nominative plural esperances)

1. hope

Synonyms

• espoir

Descendants

• Middle French: esperance
  • French: espérance

Spanish

Verb

esperance

1. inflection of esperanzar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative