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English
Etymology
From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.
Noun
overhope (uncountable)
- Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.
1859, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, The works of Francis Bacon: Volume 7:If the good turn out less than you hoped for, good though it be, yet because it is not so good, it seems to you more like a loss than a gain, by reason of the overhope.
- (UK dialectal) Hopefulness; sanguineness.
Verb
overhope (third-person singular simple present overhopes, present participle overhoping, simple past and past participle overhoped)
- To hope excessively; presume.
1919, The Country gentleman, volume 84:If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.
- 1992, David G. Moursund, International Society for Technology in Education, The technology coordinator:
- I'll cast this observation a little too broadly to make the point clearer: many principals "overhoped" that computers would have miraculous effects on all students exposed to them even if only for a few minutes per week, and now finding
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To hope constantly.