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Definition of Hankerings
1. hankering [n] - See also: hankering
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hankerings
Literary usage of Hankerings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... an Indian Dance — Matrimonial hankerings — Married at Sixteen — Old Age at
Thirty-five. soon as the Indian baby is born it is placed in a coffin-shaped ..."
2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1882)
"... In Pin-suit of Fame — A Momentous Hour — What I saw at an Indian Dance —
Matrimonial hankerings — Married at Sixteen—Old Age at Thirty-five. soon as the ..."
3. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1884)
"... and will not sacrifice its hankerings after wealth, ease, distinction, to the
welfare of his spirit, loses, wastes, destroys even the soul itself; ..."
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