wish
verb (used with object)
to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause).
wisher
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a word derived from
wish.
Example Sentences
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“Scott, your knowledge and wisdom were remarkable but your sense of humor was limitless. You will be missed by so many,” wrote one well wisher.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2023
No death wisher, Vinca responds in a way that confirms Colette's renown as an astute psychologist of women in love.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the Peers were going to vote, Lord Foley withdrew, as too well a wisher; Lord Moray, as nephew of Lord Balmerino—and Lord Stair,—as, I believe, uncle to his great-grandfather.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole
The possessor of the Skin may have every thing he wishes for; but each wish causes the Skin to shrink, and when it is all gone the wisher is annihilated with it.
From Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Stuart Mason
This book is the Gift to the present Minister of the Gospel at Halifax in Nova Scotia, and to his successors, By their well wisher and Humble Servant Nov.
From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various
