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Desired   /dɪzˈaɪərd/   Listen
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Desire  v. t.  (past & past part. desired; pres. part. desiring)  
1.
To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. "Neither shall any man desire thy land." "Ye desire your child to live."
2.
To express a wish for; to entreat; to request. "Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?" "Desire him to go in; trouble him no more."
3.
To require; to demand; to claim. (Obs.) "A doleful case desires a doleful song."
4.
To miss; to regret. (Obs.) "She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies."
Synonyms: To long for; hanker after; covet; wish; ask; request; solicit; entreat; beg. To Desire, Wish. In desire the feeling is usually more eager than in wish. "I wish you to do this" is a milder form of command than "I desire you to do this," though the feeling prompting the injunction may be the same.





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"Desired" Quotes from Famous Books



... free labor be employed to stem the progress of cotton-ocracy in the other Southern States. On this subject Hon. Robert J. Walker's letter of June 28th is one of the most instructive and remarkable documents issued since the beginning of the free-labor agitation, and it is to be desired that it should be read by every freeman in the Union. Colonization, voluntary but effective, is, as he holds, the only remedy for the terrible evil of slavery, and the only basis of the peaceful ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
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... to china painting, or gossip, or philanthropy; a man takes to poker or politics. I took to politics, second-hand. Personally and concretely I abhorred the whole miserable farce, but abstractly, and as a means to an end which I greatly desired, I found it interesting. I admired you infinitely more than I liked you in those days, but I wouldn't have married ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
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... ornaments; took her bracelets out of her bag, and picked pearls out of her walls, and made a coronet, under which her eyes flashed at night with superlative beauty—conscious beauty brightened by the sense of being admired and looked at by the eye she desired to please. ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
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... wrote his discourses on the first decade of Livy, considered his best work, and "The Art of War," which is an invaluable commentary on the history of the times. These works had the desired effect of inducing the Medici family to use the political services of the author, and at the request of Leo X. he wrote his essay "On the Reform of ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta
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... from London was hastened by the receipt of a communication from Esterhaz. Prince Anton had been succeeded by his son Nicolaus, who was as fond of music as the rest of his family, and desired to keep his musical establishment up to the old standard. During the summer of 1794 he had written to Haydn, asking if the composer would care to retain his appointment as director. Haydn was only too glad to assent; and now that his ...
— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden
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