desiderate

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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

It seemed also, owing to its height, to desiderate wings, but there were none.

From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

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

It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan