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unhoped

[uhn-hohpt]

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adjective Archaic.

not expected or anticipated; unhoped-for.

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Origin of unhoped

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at un-¹, hope, -ed²

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for unhoped

And, by some unhoped for good fortune, all this has only raised me in her eyes.
Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 107, November 10th, 1894|Various
She was sorely troubled in her happiness, however, for it seemed something too unhoped for, as unstable as a joyful dream.
An Iceland Fisherman|Pierre Loti
This is what occasioned their inexplicable and unhoped for retreat upon Yorktown and Gloucester.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette|Lafayette
Such a union as this would strengthen her against her brother, and exalt the sway of Carthage to unhoped for glory.
Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman|Frank Justus Miller

A sense of beatitude, for which no words exist, flooded his soul at the sight of that unhoped wealth.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris|Honore de Balzac