hopeward

English

Etymology

From hope +‎ -ward.

Adverb

hopeward (not comparable)

1. (chiefly poetic) Towards hope. [from 19th c.]
   • 1850, G[eorge] 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 ;