"wanhope" meaning in English

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          "text": "If[…]such good old English words as inwit and wanhope should be rehabilitated (and they have been pushing up their heads for thirty years), we should gain a great deal. (Collected essays, 1928, III.68)",
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        "(UK dialectal or archaic) Lack of hope; hopelessness; despair."
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        "Vain hope; overconfidence; delusion."
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