word of the day: wanhope

The word of the day is wanhope:

Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. (thefreedictionary.com)


"'The predominant mood at Count Ghastly's house these days is a triple-layered wanhope frosted with a fitful gloom,' explained the village pastry chef to a tea shop of quidnuncs and gossips whose schadenfreude was snapping up crumbs of rueful news."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative

word of the day: minatory

The word of the day is minatory:

menacing; threatening.

Latin minātōrius, equivalent to Latin minā (rī) to menace (dictionary.com)

"Jonquil's practical grasp of geography was elevated by a searing sense of majesty that led her onto trails of ill repute and through mountains of minatory majesty."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative