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As nouns the difference between hope and hankering

is that hope is the belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen while hankering is a strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.

As verbs the difference between hope and hankering

is that hope is to want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might while hankering is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Hope

is {{given name|female|from=English}} from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.

hope

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hope, from (etyl) .

Noun

  • (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.}}
  • (countable) The actual thing wished for.
  • (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  • (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.
  • * The Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:13
    • But now abideth faith, hope , love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
    Derived terms
    * Cape of Good Hope * forlorn hope * great white hope * have one's hope dashed * hope against hope * hope chest * hopeful * hopeless * hoper * hope springs eternal * no-hoper * out of hope * overhope * unhope * wanhope

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hopen, from (etyl) hopian.

    Verb

    (hop)
  • To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
  • (obsolete) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in .
  • * Bible, Psalms cxix. 81
    • I hope in thy word.
  • * Bible, Psalms xlii. 11
    • Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
    Usage notes
    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See
    Derived terms
    * hoped for
    See also
    * aspire * desire * expect * look forward * want

    Etymology 3

    Compare Icelandic word for a small bay or inlet.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  • (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
    • (Jamieson)
    (Webster 1913)

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    hankering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 2008 May 23, James Graff, " Lost: Labour's Love for Brown," Time :
    • [T]here is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, followed by for or after) A strong, restless desire, longing, or mental inclination.
  • * 1840 , , The Knight of Malta :
    • I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 1:
    • Mike says he even likes to talk to him and run after him, but he has a hankering that Moore should be made an example of.
  • * 1861 , , Framley Parsonage , ch. 4:
    • One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.
  • * 1904 , , Dialstone Lane . ch. 2:
    • "Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."
  • * 2010 Aug. 12, Michael D. Lemonick, " Study: Lucy's Relatives Used Tools to Butcher Meat," Time :
    • In other words, some species of human ancestor . . . not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.

    Synonyms

    * craving

    Anagrams

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