desiderate

Example Sentences

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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

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.

Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

But what more comfort could a man desiderate than is given by the Holy Spirit?

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

Swinburne's first drafts offer none of the attractions which collectors of autographs commonly desiderate.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund