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desirest

desirest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of desire.

Meaning of desire

Verb

desire (third-person singular simple present desires, present participle desiring, simple past and past participle desired)

  1. To want; to wish for earnestly.
    • I desire to speak with you.
  2. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
    • And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts
  3. To want emotionally or sexually.
    • She has desired him since they first met.
  4. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
    • Then shee said, Did I desire a sonne of my Lord ? did I not say, Doe not deceiue me?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 4:28
  5. To require; to demand; to claim.
    • A doleful case desires a doleful song.c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses
  6. To miss; to regret.
    • She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC

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Desirest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of desire.

Words near desirest in the dictionary

  1. desirement
  2. desirements
  3. desirer
  4. desirers
  5. desires
  6. desirest
  7. desireth
  8. desiring
  9. desiring-production
  10. desiring-productions
  11. desiringly

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