Verb

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(desire)

Verb

(desir)

To want; to wish for earnestly.

* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24

Neither shall any man desire thy land.

* Tennyson

Ye desire your child to live.

To put a request to (someone); to entreat.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:

And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.

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To want emotionally or sexually.

To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.

* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28

Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?

* Shakespeare

Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.

To require; to demand; to claim.

* Spenser

A doleful case desires a doleful song.

To miss; to regret.

* Jeremy Taylor

She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

Verb

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(admire)

Verb

(admir)

(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

*, II.2.4:

The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].

* Fuller

examples rather to be admired than imitated

To regard with wonder and delight.

to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;

to estimate or prize highly.

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