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WANHOPE

Definition: WANHOPE

WANHOPE

Noun

1. Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Wanhope \Wan"hope`\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression wan, won, deficient, wanting hopa hope: compare to Dutch wanhoop. See Wane, and Hope.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: WANHOPE

Non-English Usage: "WANHOPE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Frisian (despair).

Anagrams: WANHOPE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-n-o-p-w"
	-1 letter: weapon.
	-2 letters: paeon, phone.
	-3 letters: aeon, anew, enow, epha, haen, heap, hewn, hone, hope, howe, hwan, nape, neap, nope, opah, open, pane, pawn, pean, peon, phew, phon, pone, wane, wean, whap, when, whoa, whop.
	-4 letters: ane, ape, awe, awn, eon, hae, hao, hap, haw, hen, hep, hew, hoe, hon, hop, how, nae, nah, nap.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-n-o-p-w"
	+2 letters: phasedown.
	+3 letters: phasedowns.
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Alternative Orthography: WANHOPE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 41 4E 48 4F 50 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01000001 01001110 01001000 01001111 01010000 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#78 &#72 &#79 &#80 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 004E 0048 004F 0050 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57354842495039

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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