esperance

Borrowed from Middle French esperance (compare modern French espérance), from esperer (“to hope”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛspəɹəns/

esperance (plural esperances)

1. (obsolete) Expectation, hope.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
     An esperance so obstinately strong,
     That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears

• præsence

From Old French esperance.

esperance f (plural esperances)

1. hope

• espoir

• → English: esperance
• French: espérance

• esperaunce
• sperance

esperer +‎ -ance, possibly corresponding to Vulgar Latin spērāntia, from Latin spērāns.

esperance oblique singular, f (oblique plural esperances, nominative singular esperance, nominative plural esperances)

1. hope

• espoir

• Middle French: esperance
  • French: espérance

esperance

1. inflection of esperanzar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative