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hopeward

hopeward adverb: towards hope.

Adverb

hopeward (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Towards hope.
    • With a spectral gleam of joy / Shooting hopeward in the breast,1850, G[eorge] Linnæus Banks, “Night in the Capital”, in Staves for the Human Ladder, London; Edinburgh; Dublin: Charles Gilpin; Adam and Charles Black; J. B. Gilpin, →OCLC, page 103
    • As flower springs up to catch the breeze, / Smiles in the sunshine warm that fills / Its cup, though seldom falls it 'neath the trees, / So the heart rises hopeward 'mid its ills !1856, Lydia Louisa Anna Very, “The Day”, in Poems, Andover: W. F. Draper, page 29

Origin of hopeward

From hope + -ward.

Questions about hopeward

What does hopeward mean?
Hopeward means towards hope.
What part of speech is hopeward?
Hopeward is an adverb.

Words near hopeward in the dictionary

  1. hopest
  2. hopeth
  3. Hopetoun
  4. Hopetoun Park
  5. Hopetown
  6. hopeward
  7. Hopewell
  8. Hopewell Junction
  9. Hopewellian
  10. Hopewells
  11. Hopey McChange

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