Hope vs Reckon - What's the difference?
hope | reckon |
(uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
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, title= (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
To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
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, title= 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
* Bible, Psalms xlii. 11
A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
(Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
* ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version .
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
* He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version
* For him I reckon not in high estate. .
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
* ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.
* Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. .
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;
* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.
* Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version
* I reckon he won't try that again.
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
* Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." .
As a proper noun hope
is from the virtue, like faith and charity first used by puritans.As a verb reckon is
to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.hope
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) hope, from (etyl) .Noun
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.}}
- 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 * wanhopeEtymology 2
From (etyl) hopen, from (etyl) hopian.Verb
(hop)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.}}
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.}}
- I hope in thy word.
- 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 . SeeDerived terms
* hoped forSee also
* aspire * desire * expect * look forward * wantEtymology 3
Compare Icelandic word for a small bay or inlet.Noun
(en noun)- (Jamieson)
reckon
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .