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Wanting   /wˈɑntɪŋ/  /wˈɑnɪŋ/   Listen
Wanting

adjective
1.
Nonexistent.  Synonyms: absent, lacking, missing.  "Her appetite was lacking"
2.
Inadequate in amount or degree.  Synonyms: deficient, lacking.  "Deficient in common sense" , "Lacking in stamina" , "Tested and found wanting"


Want

verb
(past & past part. wanted; pres. part. wanting)
1.
Feel or have a desire for; want strongly.  Synonym: desire.  "I want my own room"
2.
Have need of.  Synonyms: need, require.
3.
Hunt or look for; want for a particular reason.  "Uncle Sam wants you"
4.
Wish or demand the presence of.
5.
Be without, lack; be deficient in.  "Want the strength to go on living" , "Flood victims wanting food and shelter"



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"Wanting" Quotes from Famous Books



... things. For the measure of right judgment attained by some, whether in the contemplation of Divine things or in directing human affairs according to Divine rules, is no more than suffices for their salvation. This measure is wanting to none who is without mortal sin through having sanctifying grace, since if nature does not fail in necessaries, much less does grace fail: wherefore it is written (1 John 2:27): "(His) unction teacheth you of ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... who was the lady of ladies would be inspired to accept the direct dominion. If not, he was ready to judge those men worthy to be its kings who by her grace and leave should undertake the task of themselves. Unlicensed Undertakers were not wanting, much to his disgust. He wrote to Cecil in November, 1595, that he heard Mr. Dudley and others were sending ships. He besought that none be suffered to soil the enterprise, and that he should be thought worthy to govern ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing
... said, hurriedly. "Don't pretend. I know how you feel, of course. But I have been wanting to tell you this for a long time. I hadn't the courage, or I was too much ashamed, or something. And this is a strange place to say it—and time. But when I saw you just now I—I felt as if I must say it. I couldn't wait ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... unobtrusive majesty, the deep, and the calm, and the perpetual,—that which must be sought ere it is seen, and loved ere it is understood,—things which the angels work out for us daily, and yet vary eternally, which are never wanting, and never repeated, which are to be found always yet each found but once; it is through these that the lesson of devotion is chiefly taught, and the blessing of ...
— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty
... filled with the records of kings and soldiers, of intrigues and fighting, these no more express the real life of a people than fever and delirium express a normal manhood. Though king and court and high society arouse our disgust or pity, records are not wanting to show that private life in England remained honest and pure even in the worst days of the Restoration. While London society might be entertained by the degenerate poetry of Rochester and the dramas of Dryden and Wycherley, English ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long


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