desiderate

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Not being an American, the author may use novel words without the fear of being called provincial; so that understandable, evidentiary, desiderate, leisured, and inamoveability stalk at large within his pages.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

In fact, I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas

There are two or three points, Mr Gilbert, on which I should like to arrive at that understanding which you pretend to desiderate.

From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Marsh, Richard

He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.

From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron