"Desiderative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... aspiration, hankering, appetency, cupidity, impulse; request, petition, quest, entreaty; velleity; pruriency. Antonyms: apathy, antipathy, aversion, inappetency. Associated Words: desiderative, desideratum, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... I die! let me die! As the subjunctive used with imperative value, depends on some desiderative verb understood, the que which would follow that verb is usually retained in Spanish (as in French), though not when V. or ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon |
