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Definition of Hopers
1. hoper [n] - See also: hoper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopers
Literary usage of Hopers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1892)
"You add that all the saints, who now believe on him through the word of preaching
are subject to him willingly, and that these are called Fore- hopers, ..."
2. A popular commentary on the New Testament by Daniel Denison Whedon (1876)
"The meaning of the verse is : we are predestinated, the glory being God's, to be
fore-hopers in Christ. First trusted—Literal Greek, the ones having fare- ..."
3. Publications by Buffalo Historical Society, Frank Hayward Severance (1879)
"Nor were the good intents all on paper, merely— one of the wildest of the hopers
did actually start a free public school for sixty scholars, children of the ..."
4. The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a Memoir of His Life: With a by Richard Cecil (1825)
"Before I dismiss the congregation, I would speak a word to another sort of
persons:—Men whom we may term hopers. They also hope; but it is their misery, ..."
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