desiderate
Example Sentences
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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
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.
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
Let those who deny that Secular Truth meets the emotional part of their nature, settle what is the nature of the emotions they desiderate.
From The Principles Of Secularism by Holyoake, George Jacob
Unity is the common desiderate of philosophic systems of all metaphysical types—neutral, materialistic, idealistic.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
