desiring

Verb

Present participle of desire.

Noun

(plural desirings)

A yearning for; a want

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For some reason, it was a kiss that left her desiring more.
In 1691, desiring to compromise Halifax, he discredited himself by the patronage of an informer named Fuller, soon proved an impostor.
A school desiring to be accredited is submitted to inspection without previous notice.
Sometimes he gives prominence, and correctly, to the fact that the disputants partially failed to understand one another, because they had separate interests at heart - those on the one side desiring above everything to guard against polytheism, those on the other being most afraid of Sabellianism.
He was accused of desiring to make himself pope; more probably he thought of serving as a papal condottiere against the emperor Henry IV.

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