desiderate

Example Sentences

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That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

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

The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

By one stroke of his pen the Apostle unfolds a heart-history; so that we desiderate no more—more would almost spoil the touching simplicity—“He whom Thou lovest!”

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

One can only query whether poetry has anything to do with “modern development,” and desiderate the addition to “sentiment” of “art.”

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George