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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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... little group of poets and humorists attracted as much custom to good Mr. Pfaff's beer-saloon as did his fresh, cool lager; and that young men, and, for the matter of that, men not so young, stole in there to listen to their contests of wit, and to wish and yearn and aspire to be of their goodly company. For the old gentleman little dreamed, as he went on his course up Broadway, that he had seen the first Bohemians of New York, and that these young men would ...

— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner

... pleasure she still knew was a recollection of the outward swim, when she had been privileged to cast away sex with the push from earth, as few men will believe that women, beautiful women, ever wish to do; and often and ardently during the run ahead they yearn for Nature to grant them their one ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... distant sphere; That it visits its earthly home no more, Nor looks on the haunts it loved before. But why should the bodiless soul be sent Far off, to a long, long banishment? Talk not of the light and the living green! It will pine for the dear familiar scene; It will yearn, in that strange bright world, to behold The rock and the ...

— Poems • William Cullen Bryant

... her selection. Margaret must go and see his mother as often as possible, but her new interest in her old friend must be concealed for the present. How Margaret—motherless for so many long years—felt her heart yearn towards the old lady, who seemed to be everybody's charge, but whom she felt now to be a sacred object of ...

— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

... Home" poured through him did he lose his self-control and lift his mellow-throated howl that was the call for the lost pack of the ancient millenniums. Under the prodding hypnosis of this music he could not but yearn and burn for the vague, forgotten life of the pack when the world was young and the pack was the pack ere it was lost for ever through the ...

— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London

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