hopeably en · ADV
Etymology
From hope + -ably.
Meanings
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(nonstandard, not-comparable, uncommon) hopefully; in a way that one would hope for
The change reflects, hopeably, a significant improvement in this city's social climate.
1987 August 19, John DeMott, “Of Elvis and W.C. Handy”, in Tri-State Defender, page 5:I used to illustrate the argument by the example that one can say "Regrettably, it is going to rain," but not "Regretfully, it is going to rain." When Preston went to Berkeley after receiving his PhD, in his first letter he wrote "Hopeably, everything is going well."
2000, Ansley J. Coale, Ansley J. Coale: An Autobiography, American Philosophical Society, pages 93–4:1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.
We have entered the 21st century and the third millennium — an era which hopeably would be qualitatively different from the earlier ones in terms of foundational postulates, value system, mindset and life styles.
2000, Punjab History Conference: Thirty-first Session, March 19-21, 1999 (Proceedings), Punjabi University Publication Bureau, page iii:The ramjet should have failed, and then whoever run the race to the Power Room should have yanked his smoking body out of the way and, hopeably, restarted it.
2006, Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Variable Star, Tor Books:But we have established the importance of both in the mindset of Vermonters and, hopeably our legislators, which is what makes the essential challenges ahead even plausible.
2007 January 5, “Governor sets stage for new Vermont”, in St. Albans Messenger, page A4: