Meaning of yearnt | Babel Free

Definitions

simple past and past participle of yearn

form-of, participle, past, rare

Examples

“Come⟳ to me, my children—come⟳ to your future home, and come⟳ quickly, for this blow⟳ has been almost too much for my strength, and I yearnt to see⟳ you once more.”

“He yearnt for the adoption of the means wherewith he could inspire⟳ his people with the feelings of love⟳, manliness and sacrifice.”

“Yearning is the beginning of spiritual life, of all possession of beauty and holiness. […] And if one lacks the yearning, one at least should yearn for the yearning. As David puts it: “I have⟳ yearnt a yearning, O Lord, for Thy righteousness!””

“The real Jesus can only be seen against the background of a Palestine whose Jewish people yearnt for liberation, and a Jewish people whose culture produced not only countless freedom fighters banking on the knife, but countless freedom fighters banking on god helping to bring⟳ about the Kingdom of God in the world in place⟳ of the Roman Empire.”

“She yearnt for unseen fingers to handle⟳ her body, to pinch her nipples, to knead her breasts.”

“This immense success, however, which Victor [Frankenstein] yearnt for many years, soon turns out to be a failure: Victor falls sick of melancholy, and tries to escape⟳ from his superhuman creation.”

“What is yearnt towards is a song ‘Of Truth that cherishes our daily life’.”

“In my case I yearnt to make⟳ up to myself the youth I had lost.”

“What I yearnt for in this life.”

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