desiderate

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Pray, pray, don't think of answering this; it is merely to correct an unfavourable impression in one whose favourable opinion I much desiderate.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman

We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

And these schools of the people that extension of the educational franchise which we desiderate would not fail to restore to the people.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

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

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