desiderate

Example Sentences

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Certainly, with such a central board in existence as that which we desiderate, no such type of schoolmaster would continue to hold office in a national seminary.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

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

We desiderate means of instruction which involve no interruption of our ordinary habits; nor need we seek it long, for the natural course of things brings it about, while we debate over it.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

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

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