Meaning of gape for | Babel Free

Definitions

To strongly desire, yearn for.

archaic

Examples

“"When we have meat, and drink, and clothing, let us be content," let us not gape for riches; for I tell you it is a dangerous thing to have riches.”

“That very few are fled for religion other than such as were not able to live at home but in beggary, or discontented for lack of preferment which they gaped for unworthily in universities and other places; or bankrupt merchants etc.”

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