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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.
Shak.
 
[Charity]
hopeth all things.
 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
 2. To expect; to
fear. [Obs.] "I hope he will be dead."
Chaucer.
 &fist; Hope is often used colloquially regarding uncertainties, with
no reference to the future. "I hope she takes me to be flesh and blood." Mrs. Centlivre.
 
Hope  , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hoped (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hoping.]
 [AS. hopian; akin to D.
hopen, Sw. hopp&?;, Dan. haabe,
G. hoffen. See 2nd Hope.] 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." Jer. Taylor.
 
But I will hope continually.
 Ps. lxxi.
14.
 2. To place confidence; to trust with
confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in. "I hope in thy
word." Ps. cxix. 81.
 
Why art thou
cast down, O
my soul? and
why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
 Ps. xlii. 11.
 
 
Hope  , n. [AS., akin to
D. hoop, hope, Sw. hopp, Dan.
haab, MHG. hoffe. Hope in forlorn hope is different word. See Forlorn hope, under Forlorn.]
 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.
 Job vii.
13.
 
He wished, but not with
hope.
 Milton.
New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.
Keble.
 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.
 Joel
iii. 16.
 
A young gentleman of great hopes, whose love of
learning was highly commendable.
 Macaulay.
3. That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
 
Lavina is thine elder brother's hope.
Shak.
 
Hope   (?), n. [Cf. Icel.
hōp a
small bay or inlet.]
 1.
A sloping plain between mountain ridges. [Obs.]
2. A small bay; an
inlet; a haven. [Scot.]
Jamieson.

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The evidence we thus obtain that the early Sumerians themselves regarded Eridu as the first city in the world to be created, increases the hope that future excavation at Abu Shahrain may reveal Sumerian remains of periods which, from an archaeological standpoint, must still be regarded as prehistoric. [1] Cf. Poebel, op. cit., p. 41.

apology. "I hope I didn't harm you. When you accused me of hurting her I lost my grip of myself. Indeed, I'm not responsible in these days. My nerves are like live wires. But this situation is beyond me. What I want to know, in the first place, Mr. Holmes, is, how in the world you came to hear of my existence at all."

confess, for I had begun to feel unequal to the society of a genius of this heroic strain. I left him, however, not without expressing a friendly hope that we should meet again. The next morning my curiosity had not abated; I was anxious to see him by common daylight. I counted upon meeting him in one of the many pictorial haunts of Florence, and I was gratified without delay. I found him in the course of the morning in the Tribune of the Uffizi--that little treasure-chamber of world-famous things. He had turned his

veracity of the record at the expense of its authority; or they expend their energies in devising the cruel ingenuities of the reconciler, and torture texts in the vain hope of making them confess the creed of Science. But when the peine forte et dure is over, the antique sincerity of the venerable sufferer always reasserts itself. Genesis is honest to the core, and professes to be no more than it is, a repository of venerable traditions of unknown origin, claiming no scientific authority and possessing

received into the army service. The policy of emancipation, and of employing black soldiers, gave to the future a new aspect, about which hope and fear and doubt contended in uncertain conflict. According to our political system, as a matter of civil administration, the General Government had no lawful power to effect emancipation in any State; and for a long time it had been hope d that the rebellion could be suppressed without resorting to it as a military measure. It was all the while deemed possible
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