Longing

Definitions

1. An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
2. The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise.

Equivalents

Examples

“all natural lovings and longings”

“For round the valley a great desert lies through which no common traveller may come⟳, but those whom the gods have⟳ chosen feel⟳ suddenly a great longing at heart, and crossing the mountains that divide⟳ the desert from the world, set⟳ out across it driven by the gods, […]”

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