Sekirov Dictionary

overhope

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

•
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. — 1859
(dialect, UK) Hopefulness; sanguineness.

verb2

•
To hope excessively; presume.
- If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs. — 1919
(dialect, UK) To hope constantly.

forms

overhoped · overhoping · overhopes

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