desiderate

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Shall we ever have it? or will the irrational conservatism of the educated classes, in all time to come, prevent a consummation so desirable, and so desiderated by the philologist?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 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 Bode, Boyd H.

The Board of Works supplied the long desiderated unity of administration.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

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 Dods, Marcus

We must therefore, he would probably say, go on to admit the Whole System in the desiderated sense.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William