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overhope

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

noun

  1. uncountable Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption. 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. UK, dialectal, uncountable Hopefulness; sanguineness.

verb overhopes · overhoping · overhoped

  1. To hope excessively; presume. If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.
  2. UK, dialectal, transitive To hope constantly.

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@misc{overhope_2026,
  title = {overhope},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overhope},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}