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Definition of Hankerers
1. hankerer [n] - See also: hankerer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hankerers
Literary usage of Hankerers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"... had among them hankerers after the exiled family, and were all sincerely
animated, not only by the esprit de corps, but by genuine feelings of mercy. ..."
2. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1827)
"(Tr.) They were so little conscious of the error of their way, that they considered
the hankerers after immortality as the lowest of the human race, ..."
3. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"... by force the payment of obligations by Venezuela has not had the slightest
influence in allaying the terrible fears of these hankerers after a big navy. ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1831)
"... and the hypocrite Charles I., nnd the chivalry which supported him, (not a
word of James II. or William III., because the Tories are hankerers after the ..."
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