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(wish)

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(label) To desire; to want.

* (William Shakespeare)

I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you.

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To hope (for a particular outcome).

* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)

This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.

* 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw)

Mr. White took the paw from his pocket and eyed it dubiously. "I don't know what to wish for, and that's a fact," he said slowly. "It seems to me I've got all I want."

To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).

* (William Shakespeare)

I would not wish them to a fairer death.

* Bible, (Psalms) xl. 14

Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil.

To request or desire to do an activity.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

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(label) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.

* (Ben Jonson)

I was wished to your worship by a gentleman.

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* {{quote-book, year=1581, author=Anonymous, title=A Treatise Of Daunses, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Next all good men ought to wishe and desire that those which put their hande to (this is to say trauaile for) the reformation of maners, should do it with such good argumentes, that there shoulde remayne, or be left, but euen a very litle to be corrected and amended. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=CHARLES. Prince of Navarre my honourable brother, Prince Condy, and my good Lord Admirall, wishe this union and religious league, Knit in these hands, thus joyn'd in nuptiall rites, May not desolve, till death desolve our lives, And that the native sparkes of princely love, That kindled first this motion in our hearts, May still be feweld in our progenye. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1806, author=Walter Scott, title=Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It also appears, by a letter from the Duke of Norfolk to Cecil, that the English borderers were unskilful in fire-arms, or, as he says, "our countrymen be not so commyng with shots as I woolde wishe ." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1831, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17,, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In the third recess on the left hand is "T.C. I leve in hope, and I gave q credit to mi frinde, in time did stande me most in hande, so wolde I never doe againe, excepte I hade him suer in bande, and to al men wishe I so, unles ye sussteine the leike lose as I do. }}