单词 | desiring |
释义 | desiringn. The action of desire v.; longing, desire. (Now rare or Obsolete except as gerund.) ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] i-willc888 wilningc888 willingeOE lustc950 listc1220 desire1303 affection1340 desiring1377 appetite1382 envya1400 wishc1430 desideryc1450 stomach1513 affect1531 wilnec1540 desirefulness1548 woulding1549 desirousness1571 ambition1579 lusting1580 listing1587 maw1601 appetition1603 appetence1610 bosoma1616 orexis1619 desirableness1649 appetency1656 would1753 wanting1801 want-to1903 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 356 Þorw coueityse and vnkynde desyrynge. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. ccxxxvv/1 The desyrynges of the flesshe. 1593 T. W. Tears of Fancie xx, in Poems (1870) 188 If he at first had banisht loues desiring. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. x. 77 By lust, I mean those general desirings of our minds after any unlawful object, which are forbidden in the tenth Commandment. 1895 N.E.D. at Desiring Mod. One cannot gain honour merely by desiring it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). desiringadj. That desires; longing, desirous. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [adjective] > desirous willesfula1250 desirousc1300 wilful1340 desiringc1386 desireda1400 talentivec1400 willinga1425 lusty1493 desiranta1500 desireful?1520 fond1551 lusting1559 desirable1759 c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋611 A man that is to desirynge for to gete riches. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxiii. 497 They were sore desyrynge for to see theyr wyves, theyr chyldren, and theyr londes. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Desirous or desirynge, appetens, auidus. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. ii. 14 So many greedy lookes of yong and old Through casements darted their desiring eies Vpon his visage. View more context for this quotation a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i, in Poems & Translations (1701) 160 Her..Jove had beheld, with a desiring look. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1377adj.c1386 |
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