Desire vs Daring - What's the difference?
desire | daring | Related terms |
To want; to wish for earnestly.
* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24
* Tennyson
To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To want emotionally or sexually.
To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28
* Shakespeare
To require; to demand; to claim.
* Spenser
To miss; to regret.
* Jeremy Taylor
(countable) Someone or something wished for.
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, title= (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
(uncountable) Motivation.
(uncountable) The feeling of desire.
Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks.
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, title=
, chapter=1 Courageous, or showing bravery.
Boldness
Desire is a related term of daring.
As verbs the difference between desire and daring
is that desire is while daring is .As an adjective daring is
adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks.As a noun daring is
boldness.desire
English
Verb
(desir)- Neither shall any man desire thy land.
- Ye desire your child to live.
- And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired .}}
- Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?
- Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.
- A doleful case desires a doleful song.
- She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.
Noun
(en-noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Synonyms
* (one or thing wished for) wanna, want-to * (motivation) wanna, want-toSee also
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* * English control verbsdaring
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
