资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wanhope \Wan"hope`\, n. [AS. wan, won, deficient, wanting + hopa
   hope: cf. D. wanhoop. ????. See {Wane}, and {Hope}.]
   Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope;
   delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. ``Wanhope and distress.''
   --Chaucer.