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Definition of Hankering
1. Noun. A yearning for something or to do something.
Definition of Hankering
1. Verb. (present participle of hanker) ¹
2. Noun. a strong restless desire or longing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hankering
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hankering
Literary usage of Hankering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"I wonder how the Doctor is so angelically patient with your hankering after the
old house, when he has made the new one so lovely for you. ..."
2. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1852)
"In examining the writings of the Fathers," he tells us, " I shall admit only the
testimony of those a hankering' after the ..."
3. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1900)
"Adventure on the roof of the Kreuzschule.— Weber and " Der Freischutz."—First
music- lessons.—hankering after theatricals.—Clara's debut as singer. ..."
4. Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and is by Henry Theodore Cheever (1856)
"We return to Honolulu—Festivities of the anniversary of Independence—Effect upon
public morals—Natural hankering after the leeks and flesh-pots of ..."
5. Historical and Biographical Essays by John Forster (1858)
"... who could yet only join their attacks on the one point of accusing him of a
hankering after place. "And what place do I write for?" he pleasantly asked. ..."
6. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann by Horace Walpole (1844)
"Yet how many are hankering after these things, without reflecting that they are
more likely to follow in death than in succession! ..."
7. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1885)
"... and had been selected because her age precluded any chance of a hankering
after gaieties and finery, and because she had enough money saved before ..."
8. The Higher Christian Education by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874)
"The intellectual and moral littleness of hankering after degrees has come to be
one of the signs of the times among us ; as also, ..."
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