Definition of hope

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Hope (n.) One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good..

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Wanhope :: Wanhope (n.) Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman..
Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..
Forlorn :: Forlorn (v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
Illusory :: Illusory (a.) Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes..
Extinguish :: Extinguish (v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right..
Desperate :: Desperate (a.) Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
Despair :: Despair (v. t.) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted.
Strene :: Strelitzia (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers..
Blight :: Blight (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
Rix-dollar :: Rix-dollar (n.) A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler..
Promise :: Promise (v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil..
Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..
Despairing :: Despairing (a.) Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.
Evanescence :: Evanescence (n.) The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes..
Fallible :: Fallible (a.) Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible..
Expectancy :: Expectancy (n.) That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope..
Undo :: Undo (v. t.) To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence..
Sperable :: Sperable (a.) Within the range of hpe; proper to be hoped for.
Hopeless :: Hopeless (a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
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