unhope
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English, equivalent to un- + hope.
Noun
editunhope (uncountable)
- Absence or lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
- 1902, Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris I:
- Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past doubtings all
Waits in unhope.