desiredadj.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Hag. ii. 8 The desirid to alle folkis shal cume.

a1440 Found. St. Bartholomew's 43 To ȝeue the a ȝeifte of desirid helth.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cvii. 30 So he bringeth them vnto their desired hauen. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. v. 62 To her desir'd Posthumus. View more context for this quotation

1651 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa I. i. i. 70 At last the long desired Day appear'd.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 266 The long desired title of Elector of Hanover.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Dd.j Of the death of suche an entierly desyred husbande.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28505 Gerndand i haf oft ben Desird o þire wymmen scen.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xlii. 158 She..was sore desired to know of hym som gode tydynges.

1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 318 If thy sweete voice..might sound in our desired eares with some happie song.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 65 He being Pater misericordiarum, and wholly, freely, and desiredly, giving, occasioning, procuring, effecting our salvation.

1666 G. Alsop Char. Province Maryland 18 Every man lives quietly, and follows his labour and imployment desiredly.

a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) xix. 327 There being rather want in the sense of absence of what should be than want in the sense of desiredness.

1888 P. H. Wicksteed Alphabet Econ. Sci. 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.

1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Feb. 198/1 His introduction into the English language of ‘desiredness’.

1920 A. C. Pigou Econ. of Welfare v. x. 771 The marginal desiredness which money has for them.