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Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-sid-uh-reyt

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɪd əˌreɪt

Definition of desiderate

As in want : verb desire
As in wish : verb desire
As in covet : verb desire strongly
As in desire : verb want, long for

Example sentences :

That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.
Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
Extract from : « Modern Essays » by John Macy

We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.
Extract from : « The Meaning of Truth » by William James

We (they observe) need not deny a designer of the world, but we desiderate evidence of his actual workmanship.
Extract from : « The Philosophy of Natural Theology » by William Jackson

Some may desiderate longer notices of German theories concerning the origin and character of the Acts.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 » by G. T. Stokes

Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness.
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury

It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.
Extract from : « The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels » by John Burgon

We desiderate such periods of relaxation and repose in Macaulay.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 » by Various

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