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Hope   /hoʊp/   Listen
verb
Hope  v. t.  
1.
To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of. "We hope no other from your majesty." "(Charity) hopeth all things."
2.
To expect; to fear. (Obs.) "I hope he will be dead." Note: Hope is often used colloquially regarding uncertainties, with no reference to the future. "I hope she takes me to be flesh and blood."



Hope  v. i.  (past & past part. hoped; pres. part. hoping)  
1.
To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; usually followed by for. "Hope for good success." "But I will hope continually."
2.
To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. "I hope in thy word." "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God."



noun
Hope  n.  
1.
A sloping plain between mountain ridges. (Obs.)
2.
A small bay; an inlet; a haven. (Scot.)



Hope  n.  
1.
A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy. "The hypocrite's hope shall perish." "He wished, but not with hope." "New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven."
2.
One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good. "The Lord will be the hope of his people." "A young gentleman of great hopes, whose love of learning was highly commendable."
3.
That which is hoped for; an object of hope. "Lavina is thine elder brother's hope."






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"Hope" Quotes from Famous Books



... are also making their way."[158] Would this report of religion in South Australia be "most satisfactory" to that apostle, who teaches that "there is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling?" ...
— Australia, its history and present condition • William Pridden

... What matters then that War On the horizon like a beacon burns, That Death ascends, man's most desired star, That Darkness is his hope? The Spring returns! Triumphant through the wider-arched cope She comes, she comes, unto her tyranny, And at her coronation are set ope The prisons of the mind, and man is free! The beggar-garbed or over-bent with snows, Each mortal, long defeated, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

... Hampton, is given as of the first family. But the mother of Ralph the justice was a De Bohun. I propose, therefore, tentatively, to consider that the first Ralph de Hampton married a De Bohun, and hope to find the records true of an eldest son Ralph, brother of Robert, the Archdeacon of Lisiaux, of Peter the clerk, and of Roger of Hampton. This view is supported by many facts, and it gives time. Ralph was at the height of his power in 1188, the very date at which ...
— Shakespeare's Family • Mrs. C. C. Stopes

... Pasmer—an effect so admirably disowned, so perfectly obvious. Before she could get to sleep she was obliged to make a compromise with her heart, in pursuance of which, when she found Mrs. Pasmer at breakfast alone in the morning, she went up to her, and said, holding her hand a moment, "I hope your daughter slept well ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... I know it by my own heart. When I think of all she suffered, of my own early sufferings, of the distresses and struggles of my heroic wife, of my sister, sold in the New Orleans slave-market,—though I hope to have no unchristian sentiments, yet I may be excused for saying, I have no wish to pass for an American, or to ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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