desiderate
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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
One can only query whether poetry has anything to do with “modern development,” and desiderate the addition to “sentiment” of “art.”
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
Let those who deny that Secular Truth meets the emotional part of their nature, settle what is the nature of the emotions they desiderate.
From The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake
Upon my faith, sir," said Campbell, "I cannot render you the service you seem to desiderate.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
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
We must therefore, he would probably say, go on to admit the Whole System in the desiderated sense.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
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
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 T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Beginning as a correction of the evils of existence, religion ends by offering an infallible avenue of escape from them through postulating a desiderated type of existence which operates to gather the spirit to itself.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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
