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Overhope

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption. uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Hopefulness; sanguineness. UK, dialectal, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To hope excessively; presume.

    "If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs."

  2. 2
    To hope constantly. UK, dialectal, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.

Etymology 2

From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.

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