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desired, ppl. a.|dɪˈzaɪəd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Wished for, longed for, etc.: see the vb.
1382Wyclif Haggai ii. 8 The desirid to alle folkis shal cume. a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's 43 To ȝeue the a ȝeifte of desirid helth. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. v. 62 To her desir'd Posthumus. 1611Bible Ps. cvii. 30 So he bringeth them vnto their desired hauen. 1655Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 21 At last, the long desired day appear'd. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 266 The long desired title of Elector of Hanover.
†2. Missed, regretted, desiderated. Obs.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Dd j a, Of the death of suche an entierly desyred husbande.
†3. Affected with desire; longing, desirous. [= L. cupidus.] Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 28505 (Cott.) Gerndand i haf oft ben desird o þire wymmen scen. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xlii. 158 She..was sore desired to know of hym som gode tydynges. 1598Yong Diana 318 If thy sweete voice..might sound in our desired eares with some happie song.
Hence deˈsiredly adv., in a desired manner; † according to one's own desire, con amore (obs.; cf. desirously); deˈsiredness, the condition of being desired.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar 65 He being Pater misericordiarum, and wholly, freely, and desiredly, giving, occasioning, procuring, effecting our salvation. 1666G. Alsop Maryland (1869) 46 Every man lives quietly, and follows his labor and imployment desiredly. a1866J. Grote Exam. Util. Philos. (1870) xix. 327 There being rather want in the sense of absence of what should be than want in the sense of desiredness. 1888P. H. Wicksteed Alphabet Econ. Sc. 8, I am not aware of any recognised word, however, which signifies the quality of being desired. ‘Desirableness’ conveys the idea that the thing not only is but deserves to be desired. ‘Desiredness’ is not English, but I shall nevertheless use it as occasion may require. 1889Sat. Rev. 16 Feb. 198/1 His introduction into the English language of ‘desiredness’. 1920A. C. Pigou Econ. of Welfare v. x. 771 The marginal desiredness which money has for them. |