Meaning of desiderate | Babel Free

Definitions

To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.

transitive

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Examples

“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 […]”

“it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.”

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