esperance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of esperance
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English esperaunce, from Middle French esperance, from Vulgar Latin spērantia (unattested), equivalent to Latin spērant- (stem of spērāns ) “hoping” (present participle of spērāre, derivative of spēs “hope”) + -ia -ia
Example Sentences
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Sith yet there is a credence in my heart, An esperance so obstinately strong, That doth invert th' attest of eyes and ears; As if those organs had deceptious functions Created only to calumniate.
From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
And yitt in esperance thairof, the saidis Erle and George his brother war the first that voted, that the Castell of Sanctandrois should he beseiged.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
Hir slevis suld be of esperance, To keip hir fra dispair; Hir gluvis of the gud govirnance, To hyd hir fyngearis fair.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
We are both perfectly well, too, and brave with happiness, and "a credence in our hearts, and esperance so absolutely strong, as doth outvie the attest of eyes and ears."
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
O wicked Wazirs, shall a man of understanding renounce all esperance in Almighty Allah?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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