desiderate
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Etymology
From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”).
Pronunciation
Verb
desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)
- (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.
- 1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?:
- Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
Translations
Adjective
desiderate (comparative more desiderate, superlative most desiderate)
- desired, wished or longed for
- 1916, Lord Dunsany, “A Tale of London”, in Tales of Wonder:
- O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
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