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prisoner of hope

noun

Etymology

Translation of the biblical phrase אֲסִירֵ֖י הַתִּקְוָ֑ה (assirei ha-tikvah) found in Zechariah 9:12. See אָסִיר (asír, “prisoner”) and תִּקְוָה (tikvá, “hope”) for more.

Definitions

  1. One who remains hopeful in spite of circumstances that seem hopeless.

    • Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope, and kept captives by greed.
    • And every genuine educator is a prisoner of hope. The road to all liberation through self-knowing is a path of despair, but all roads have their empty horizons and infinite beyonds.

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