desiderate
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Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Certainly, with such a central board in existence as that which we desiderate, no such type of schoolmaster would continue to hold office in a national seminary.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller
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
In fact, I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
I may briefly reduce the chief persuading motive to this so needful and so much desiderated grace into some three or four heads.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
But now two things will chiefly be desiderated, which now we own in our testimony, for which many have died, that seem not to be confirmed by or consistent with the testimony of this period.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
The encouragement desiderated at home, the poet, however, experienced elsewhere.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Time and patience were alike necessary in order to the successful accomplishment of the end desiderated.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
In our problem the desiderated solution is the means, the end is the development, or, we should rather say, the creation of speculative thought—a kind of thought different altogether from ordinary popular thinking.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
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
