desiderate

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That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.

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

The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

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

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

Unity is the common desiderate of philosophic systems of all metaphysical types—neutral, materialistic, idealistic.

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

Then, as the exciting sounds draw nearer and nearer, do I desiderate those eyes of Aristarchus, 'whose looks were as a breeching to a boy.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell