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English
Etymology
From hope + -ward.
Adverb
hopeward (not comparable)
- (chiefly poetic) Towards hope.
1850, G Linnæus Banks, “Night in the Capital”, in Staves for the Human Ladder, London, Edinburgh, Dublin: Charles Gilpin; Adam and Charles Black; J. B. Gilpin, →OCLC, page 103:With a spectral gleam of joy / Shooting hopeward in the breast,
1856, Lydia Louisa Anna Very, “The Day”, in Poems, Andover: W. F. Draper, page 29:As flower springs up to catch the breeze, / Smiles in the sunshine warm that fills / Its cup, though seldom falls it 'neath the trees, / So the heart rises hopeward 'mid its ills !
1872, John Payne, “Shadow-soul”, in Songs of Life and Death, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 128:For though my feet in silence move / Alone across this waste of hours, / My heart strains hopeward like a dove, / My soul bursts out in passion-flowers ;