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desiderate

verb /dɪˈsɪdəɹeɪt/

  1. To miss; to feel the absence of; to long for.

    transitive

    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 […]

Where it comes from

From Latin, from the participle stem of the verb dēsīderāre (“to desire”). The verb is a doublet of desire.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry desiderate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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