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English
Etymology
From un- + hoped.
Adjective
unhoped (not comparable)
- Not hoped for; unexpected.
1660, 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: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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