desiderate

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

Discoverers should bear a little with beginners; and we suggest that, in a second edition, a full table should be given of what we desiderate.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

Not jural but peaceable settlement of disputes is the motto of these men; they do not desiderate justice in the sense of existing law, but equity such as contents both parties.

From The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Swinburne's first drafts offer none of the attractions which collectors of autographs commonly desiderate.

From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

A slight want of individual character may still be desiderated; it is hardly till Manon Lescaut that we get that, but it was not to be expected.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

Truly, your reverence, I dinna ken," replied Mrs. Weymss, beginning to bustle about the apartment in search of the desiderated articles; "but they canna be far aff, surely.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

These, the constantly desiderated traits of a perfect universe, are in fact the limits of what adequacy environmental satisfactions can attain, ideas hypostatized, normative of existence, but not constituting it.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

They did precisely what sceptical writers in recent years have desiderated; they instituted a jealous examination of the affair.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

It was food for the body they desiderated, not solace for the mind; and it was, perhaps, only natural that they should treat Mr. Lawrence's suggestions rather curtly.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

That possibility, I need hardly say, is one that, as the actual world goes, we have ample grounds for desiderating.

From Pragmatism by William James

Perhaps that which we are desiderating could not be better expressed than by saying that we need a ministry prophetic and apostolic.

From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various