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Longing   /lˈɔŋɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Longing  n.  An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. "Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me."


verb
Long  v. i.  (past & past part. longed; pres. part. longing)  
1.
To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; followed by an infinitive, or by for or after. "I long to see you." "I have longed after thy precepts." "I have longed for thy salvation." "Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones... at a great distance from the sea."
2.
To belong; used with to, unto, or for. (Obs.) "The labor which that longeth unto me."





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"Longing" Quotes from Famous Books



... coat and looked with longing eyes on the waiter as he pulled the caps off the berries; he never said a word, merely swallowing the secretion from his glands. When he had gulped his berries, I told the waiter ...
— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson
... unconscious longing in Patricia's voice; no one, not even Daddy, knew quite what the coming of her grandmother meant to the little motherless girl. And a grandmother she had not seen since babyhood. The coming weeks seemed to Patricia full ...
— Patricia • Emilia Elliott
... told her and Charlie three years ago, now no longer the foremost in the little procession, but as unknowable apart as ever, as they preceded the tenors. And there, behind all, was Mr. Owen's familiar face! Denys knelt with all the congregation, waiting and longing to hear his deep, strong voice in the collects which began the service. But it was a curate who read the prayers, and the words passed unheeded over Denys's head, for her heart was back in Saltmarsh among the days when she had first known ...
— The Girls of St. Olave's • Mabel Mackintosh
... tramp to town before him Archie was unable to sympathize with Grubbs' longing for slumber. He left the foreman tinkering the machine in which Putney was to be borne to the station, changed his hat for his cap and stole out of the sleeping quarters ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson
... in all ages, exceptions. Women, yielding to the God-given yearning after higher and better things than idle frivolities, and longing just as ardently for love and happiness in their married homes, sought to work out life's problem differently, and went to work as rational creatures. Breaking through or over the obstacles which debarred them from enjoying or making use of the sources of information open to the ...
— Woman: Man's Equal • Thomas Webster


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