unhoped

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ hoped

Adjective[edit]

unhoped (not comparable)

  1. Not hoped for; unexpected.
    • 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
      The Prince of peace would like himself confer / A gift unhoped, without the price of war
    • 1744, Eliza Fowler Haywood, The Fortunate Foundlings[1]:
      With these words he gave him a letter directed, as he had said, but not sealed, which Horatio, after he had manifested the sense he had of so unhoped an obligation, reminded him of.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 289:
      Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.

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