hopern.
/ˈhəʊpə/, U.S. /ˈhoʊpər/ One who hopes.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > one who hopes or is hopeful
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. xxii. 31 God..a shelde is of alle the hopers [L. sperantium] in hym.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 733/1 Such hopers and such louers..are yet no lesse begiled then are the beggers that dreme they finde great heapes of gold.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 152 Then shall these Hopers be in eternal possession.
1788 F. Burney Diary 23 Nov. (1842) IV. 329 She is no hoper; she sees nothing before us but despair and horror.
1889 W. Ward W. G. Ward & Oxf. Movement 379 It would take a very enthusiastic hoper to look for success now.
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