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Definition of Desire to know
1. Noun. Curiosity that motivates investigation and study.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desire To Know
Literary usage of Desire to know
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"... must needs be an erroneous and unsound church, and even the Scriptures on
which it is founded, uncertain, if not false ? we should desire to know, ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"But if he intend not only the kinds of things, but every individual creature,
and not only in natural but voluntary actions, I desire to know how Prester ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"I would not ask the same question twice ; 1 think nobody hath asked it already ;
I desire to know, if he knows, of his own knowledge, what was given to sir ..."
4. With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand (1916)
"Some will, perhaps, desire to know what became of Closen. Sent to the Islands (the
West Indies) with the rest of the army, he felt, like all his comrades, ..."
5. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"desire to know his object, the language of the Celtic peoples, as it really is.
In this he stands as a model to Celtic students; and it has been given to ..."
6. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia by Georgia General Assembly (1904)
"... and desire to know in what Manner the Trustees must apply for such Vice
Admiralty Powers to be establish'd in the Province of Georgia. Adjourn'd. ..."
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