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Definition of Hopefully
1. Adverb. With hope; in a hopeful manner. "We searched hopefully for a good position"
2. Adverb. It is hoped. "Hopefully the weather will be fine on Sunday"
Definition of Hopefully
1. Adverb. It is hoped that; I hope; we hope. ¹
2. Adverb. In a hopeful manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hopefully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopefully
Literary usage of Hopefully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"July—August 1970 With the hope of has some slight variations, such as with little
hope of with any hope of and with its hope of hopefully No one knows why a ..."
2. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1855)
"Some who listened to his religious instructions became serious and hopefully pious.
This awakened the opposition of the papists, who complained of him to ..."
3. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account ...by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams (1832)
"Eight or ten were hopefully born into the kingdom in one week. What is rather
surprizing, all except two or three of those who entertain hope, ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"... when well established, for that which we all yet hopefully labour for, however
slow its progress—a really inductive science of medicine. HH ART. XXII. ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"hopefully WAITING. [Verses, by Anson DF Randolph. 1855.] NOT as you meant, O
learned man and good, Do I accept thy words of hope and rest; God, knowing all, ..."
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