ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)

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a. 1628.  F. Grevil, Wks. (1870), IV. 267. In which unhoping time you must resolue [etc.].

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1738.  G. Lillo, Marina, II. i. Or Jove restore to my unhoping eyes What his vindictive hand hath taken from me.

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1866.  Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 172. I was Thomas the Doubter, the unhoping.

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1892.  Nation (N.Y.), 28 April, 322/2. The latest of these unhoping encomiums on greatness deferred.

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  b.  As pple. with object. (UN-1 5 d.)

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. 40. Unhoping … the success of their schemes in Solmes’s behalf.

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