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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

In a hopeful manner.

Hammond.

adv.

With hope or desire of good, and expectation of obtaining it.

hopingly ‎(comparative more hopingly, superlative most hopingly)

In a hopeful manner.
- Hammond
  One sign of despair is the peremptory contempt of the condition which is the ground of hope; the going on not only in terrours and amazement of conscience, but also boldly, hopingly, and confidently in wilful habits of sin.
- Caleb Cushing
  […] we deplore the existence of the system in our country, and look forward hopingly to the day when it shall cease from the land, as a day of jubilee and thanksgiving to all America.