desiderate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/
desiderate (desiderates, present participle desiderating; past and past participle desiderated)
- (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
- Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
desiderate
- desired, wished or longed for
- 1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London” in The Last Book of Wonder:
- O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
- 1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London” in The Last Book of Wonder:
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