unhoped

[ uhn-hohpt ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. not expected or anticipated; unhoped-for.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unhoped¹

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; un- ¹, hope, -ed ²

Example Sentences

The good things of this life, the glad surprises, the unhoped for reprieves from sorrow, rarely come without some drawback of regret or pain.

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They told thee truth; and Heaven shall have my prayers, My soul pour'd out in endless gratitude, For this unhoped, immeasurable blessing.

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His passages of eloquence come, like his friends, ‘unasked, unhoped,’ because the fervour of his own thought, or the pressure of circumstances, like the calumnies that provoked the Apologia, wrings them from him.

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Such a union as this would strengthen her against her brother, and exalt the sway of Carthage to unhoped for glory.

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How much that was unexpected and unhoped for have they not brought!

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