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Definition of Hopefulness

1. Noun. Full of hope.

Definition of Hopefulness

1. Noun. The property of being hopeful. ¹

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Definition of Hopefulness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopefulness

Literary usage of Hopefulness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"... we have hopefulness, which is the third elemental affection. h. ... Trustfulness, and hopefulness, we have the fourth elemental affection ; viz., ..."

2. Australasia by Henry Rees (1907)
"The hopefulness of Australia How far the interesting democratic ideal of Australia is practicable, time alone can show. There are many difficulties- in the ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... the traditions of the old high-church Anglicanism, to which he added much of the zeal and hopefulness of the Oxford movement, while his Quaker blood and ..."

4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1862)
"... and all the members of CHRIST throughout the land, alike in town and country, will find no life except in communion with her Body. hopefulness OF ..."

5. Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell by Horace Bushnell, Mary A. Bushnell Cheney (1880)
"... Patriotism and hopefulness during the War.—His Account of its Causes, and Interest in its Details. — Tribute to Major Camp.—Vacations at New Preston. ..."

6. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander Kinglake (1877)
"With these forces posted in an entrenched posi- increased tion, with a great command of labour, and an all of the - hopefulness but unbounded command of ..."

7. France Under Louis XV by James Breck Perkins (1897)
"Where despondency was to be expected, hopefulness was found. During the last years of Louis XIV.'s life there was no joyous anticipation of the future to ..."

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