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Yearn

verb

(past & past part. yearned; pres. part. yearning)

Desire strongly or persistently. Synonyms: hanker, long.

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present. Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen. "I am pining for my lover"

Have affection for; feel tenderness for.

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"Yearn" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lord, let me be gone," he said, as he remembered the bitter quarrel he had had with the manager of the King's House, which ended in the employment of Tompkins. He did not yearn for another interview; for Hart had forbidden him the theatre ...

— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.

... of Editor, I learn, "This Story is the Kind for which I Yearn; Its Advertising brought us such Renown, We jumped Three Hundred ...

— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess

... labor to rest, through combat to victory;" "The glory which men give and take is transitory," these and like phrases were already deeply engraven on the fleshly tablets of his heart. Amid all his glowing triumphs he was developing a curious disinclination to appear in public; he seemed to yearn for ...

— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various

... right. Paris demands the Republic, and must yearn for it eagerly indeed, since neither your excesses nor your follies have succeeded in changing ...

— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton

... gave no encouragement to certain of her companion's most vehement sentiments. She seemed to yearn for exactly that side of life from which the younger shrank with so much horror. She saw it under an entirely different aspect. Hadria felt thrown back on herself, lonely ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

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