hope

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This hope is the evangelic hope,--the yearning desire, and the humble trust,--to be forgiven through the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to be sanctified by the indwelling power of the Holy Ghost.

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  1. intransitive verb To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment.
  2. intransitive verb Archaic To have confidence; trust.
  3. transitive verb To look forward to with confidence or expectation: We hope that our children will be successful.
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  • A gleam of hope, however, came in the midst of his distress, for his friends at Sache held out prospects of a wealthy marriage; but this hope was an elusive one: the prospective bride was not expected in Touraine until the month of October, and how in the meantime was he to pay his pressing debts? —  Honoré de Balzac
  • I want him to love me again but I'm not sure if my hope is a false hope, or even how to go about things. —  Evil Inc.
  • "It's just an unending string of losses and the hope is always with the next generation of products they'll make money and with the next generation of products they'll make money but when you look at the financial results it's just never happened." —  Saab Cars - Trollhattan Saab
  • Nevertheless, the political, social and economic situation in the places where this hope has been announced is increasingly distressing. —  Der Sämann
  • "Underneath my hope was a sense of anxiety," Bush recalled in a May 2008 interview. —  One Thousand Reasons
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desire ·  joy ·  love ·  fear ·  promise ·  pride ·  idea ·  faith ·  expectation ·  need

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hope:   hoped ·  hoping ·  hopes
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  1. Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian.

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  1. from Middle English hopen, hope, sometimes merely expect, think, guess, without implication of desire; from Anglo-Saxon hopian (preterit hopode), hope, look for (followed by preposition tō, to, or by a clause with thæt, that), = Dutch hopen, hoopen = Middle Low German Low German hopen, hapen = Middle High German hoffen, German hoffen = Icelandic hopask, reflexive, = Swedish hoppas, reflexive, =Danish haabe, hope. Root unknown; the L. cupere, desire, does not agree phonetically: see cupidity.
  2. from Middle English hope, hope, expectation, ground or object of hope, from Anglo-Saxon hopa (also in comp. tō-hopa) = Dutch hoop = Middle High German hoffe = Swedish hopp = Danish haab, hope; from the verb.
  3. from Middle English hope, a valley, from Anglo-Saxon *hōp, prob. in the same sense, but it is not found except in comp., with indeterminate sense: see hoop.
  4. from Icelandic hōpr, a small land-locked bay or inlet, named apparently from its circular form, the word being prob. identical with hōp, a recess or inlet, = Anglo-Saxon *hōp, English hoop, a circular band: see hoop, and cf. hope, a valley.
 

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