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
Secondly, by way of wish, yet so that the desire of the wisher is not referred to the man's punishment, but to the justice of the punisher, according to Ps.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas
There is only one to quarrel with about this sad affair, John Everard," said he smoothly, "and that only one is your friend and well wisher, Quincy Livingstone.
From The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith
No more now, but I remain your ever loving chum and well wisher, Sandy.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
