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Definition of Desiderating
1. desiderate [v] - See also: desiderate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiderating
Literary usage of Desiderating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"... dramatist; a beaten candidate for parliament; and, in his second stage,
perpetually desiderating, but never, in the very slightest measure, receiving, ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"First of all, let me say at once that I am quite at one with Mr. Freshfield in
desiderating " historical insight," as well as knowledge of the localities ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... we could not fail to note that the poetical element dominates the practical,
or help occasionally desiderating a little more definite information upon ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"The author concludes by desiderating annual measurements of not only growth but
strength, especially during adolescence, besides annual school examinations, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... And another again wishes for children, whom above all desiderating, he goes
down below the earth to Ades. ..."
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