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prisoner of hope

prisoner of hope noun: one who remains hopeful in spite of circumstances that seem hopeless.

Noun

prisoner of hope (plural prisoners of hope)

  1. One who remains hopeful in spite of circumstances that seem hopeless.
    • Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed.2009, V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind, →ISBN, page 3
    • Optimism is a notion that there's sufficient evidence that would allow us to infer that if we keep doing what we're doing, things will get better. I don't believe that. I'm a prisoner of hope, that's something else. Cutting against the grain, against the evidence'.2013, Vaidehi Ramanathan, Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship: Rights, Access, Pedagogies, →ISBN

Examples of prisoner of hope in a sentence

  • And every genuine educator is a prisoner of hope.2013, David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby, Seth Vannatta, The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man, →ISBN, page 254:
  • A prisoner of hope is an entrepreneur unknowingly trapped in a deceptive world where reality is masked by that person's desire to succeed.2013, Tom Panaggio, The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur's Unexpected Edge, →ISBN:

Forms of prisoner of hope

pluralprisoners of hope

Origin of prisoner of hope

Translation of the biblical phrase אֲסִירֵ֖י הַתִּקְוָ֑ה (assirei ha-tikvah) found in Zechariah 9:12. See אָסִיר (asír, “prisoner”) and תִּקְוָה (tikvá, “hope”) for more.

Questions about prisoner of hope

What does prisoner of hope mean?
Prisoner of hope means one who remains hopeful in spite of circumstances that seem hopeless.
How do you use prisoner of hope in a sentence?
And every genuine educator is a prisoner of hope.
What part of speech is prisoner of hope?
Prisoner of hope is a noun.
What is the plural of prisoner of hope?
The plural of prisoner of hope is prisoners of hope.

Words near prisoner of hope in the dictionary

  1. prisoner
  2. prisoner at large
  3. prisoner exchange
  4. prisoner exchanges
  5. prisoner of conscience
  6. prisoner of hope
  7. prisoner of war
  8. prisoner swap
  9. prisoner swaps
  10. prisoner visa
  11. prisoner visas

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