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Definition of Desirousness
1. n. The state of being desirous.
Definition of Desirousness
1. Noun. The state of being desirous. ¹
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Definition of Desirousness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Desirousness
Literary usage of Desirousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Posthumous Works of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers by Thomas Chalmers, William Hanna (1849)
"That is not a desirousness which will help you forward, but rather prove an ...
What I want is the desirousness of the conscience-stricken sinner, ..."
2. The Christian Sabbath: Considered in Its Various Aspects (1856)
"To express my religious state in one sentence :—~I have a strong general desirousness
towards God, though often suspended by the avocations of life, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"desirousness, (de-zi'-rus-nes) n. ». Fullness of desire. To DESIST, (de-sist') t>.
n. To cease from ; to stop. DESISTANCE, (de-sis'-tanse) n.». ..."
4. The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar by Thomas Erskine Erskine, James Ridgway (1813)
"Can you convict any man upon evidence which imputes no act, but only a seeming
desirousness ? Lord Thanet SEEMED to press himself towards the Bar, ..."
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