hope sb.:
1.
“out of ,” (i)
without hope Tp. III. iii. 11, Shr. V. i. 147; (ii) not
merely hoping MND. III. ii.
279; (iii) past hope
Ven. 567
“Things out of ”
; (iv) in hopes H8 Prol. 8, Cor. IV. v. 85.
2.
person or thing that
is the centre of one's hopes
1H6 IV. iv. 20
“You, his false
h-s,”
2H6 II. iii. 24,
H8 V. iv. 56
“the o' the
Strand,”
Lucr. 1430
“their brave ”
4.
expectation
1H4 I. ii. 233
“falsify men's
h-s,”
Oth. I. iii. 203
“the worst, which late
on hopes depended.”