desire
verb (used with object)
desirer
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a word derived from
desire.
Example Sentences
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Man, unfortunately, is not the desirer of one thing at a time, but of many things, and the gratification of a single desire is not enough to content him.
From To-morrow? by Victoria Cross
He whose arms are full of bones, sinews and flesh, is a great desirer of novelties and beauties, and one that is very credulous and apt to believe anything.
He seems a full student, for he is a great desirer of controversies; he argues sharply, and carries his conclusion in his scabbard.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
But it is not wholly at rest, as regards the desirer, since it does not possess that good in every way that it would wish to possess it.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
The object, no doubt, laisse à desirer; but where is another?
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
