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Hanker   /hˈæŋkər/   Listen
verb
Hanker  v. i.  (past & past part. hankered; pres. part. hankering)  
1.
To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town. "He was hankering to join his friend."
2.
To linger in expectation or with desire.





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"Hanker" Quotes from Famous Books



... declaim all this dull nonsense, over the ashes of my ruined dreams, thinking at bottom of how pretty you are, and of how much I would like to kiss you. That is the real tragedy, the immortal tragedy, that I should still hanker ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... I don't know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself. I know that the proper thing to do, when you get to a village or town, is to rush off to the churchyard, and enjoy the graves; but it is a recreation that I always deny myself. I take no interest ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome
... there are, plainly, two sorts; and one sort tends to exclude the other. The multitude may hanker after the flesh-pots of Egypt, or they may long for the milk and honey of a Promised Land. In the one case they will be inclined to obey their leaders, in the other to murmur against them. It cannot be necessary to ...
— The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan • H. G. Keene
... before. Lusts and corruptions would strongly put themselves forth within me in wicked thoughts and desires which I did not regard before. Whereas, before, my soul was full of longing after God; now my heart began to hanker after every ...
— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude
... breastplate of the High Priest, while judges and elders governed in the cities. But afterwards they began to be tempted to make friends with their heathen neighbours, and thus learnt to believe in their false deities, and to hanker after the service of some god who made no such strict laws of goodness as those by which they were bound. As certainly as they fell away, so surely the punishment came, and God stirred up some of these dangerous friends to attack them. Sometimes it was a Canaanite ...
— The Chosen People - A Compendium Of Sacred And Church History For School-Children • Charlotte Mary Yonge


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