desire
/dɪˈzaɪɹ/ noun B1- The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something. · Too much desire can seriously affect one’s judgement.
- Someone or something wished for. · It is my desire to speak with you.· You’re my heart’s desire.
- Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual. · His desire for her kept him awake at night.
- Motivation.
Plural desires
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Now go, and do not seek me again until you have earned the brains you so greatly desire.”
“Now, would anybody think that this room contained a happy, merry party, who desire nothing better than to laugh and dance the hours away?”
Do you still feel any desire to stand up in his defence?”
If you wish to see me the king’s attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician.”
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