hope
noun
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
hopingly
-
a word derived from
hope.
Example Sentences
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"Heat soothly I call when the mind truly is kindled in Love Everlasting, and the heart on the same manner to burn not hopingly, but verily is felt."
From Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
He tried to follow Stubby; not in the trusting, bounding manner of the collies—not happily, but hopingly.
From Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell
Friedrich looked hopingly on the French, but could not give his secret except by degrees and with reciprocity.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
The joyful season drew nigh merrily, and in the watchmaker's family, as in all others—for the very poorest look forward hopingly to it—there was nothing but bright anticipations, which were for the present realized.
From Watch—Work—Wait Or, The Orphan's Victory by Sarah A. (Sarah Ann) Myers
