desiring

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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