What does desiderate mean?
Desiderate means (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for..
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/dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/ · verb
(transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for..
Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
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Desiderate means (transitive) To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for..
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Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
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