desiderate
Example Sentences
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O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
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.
Their contemplation will still desiderate something beyond all finite being, actual or possible.
From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.
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
He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
