Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mournful; distressing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Desirous.
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- adjective Filled with
yearning ;desirous ;mournful ;distressing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meticulous, worshipful further study can be found here. p.s. By the way, I feel like there must be a connection between the blatant, explicit sexual nature of Gaga and Glambert — whose performances wear the permissive mores of our society like a fancy headdress or a harness — and the repressed, charged, yearnful yet chaste world of Twilight, which is the other thing burning up the Zeitgeist right now.
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But at least you could have acted yearnful, as in, well, if I had the time, I'd watch The Sopranos.
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And then a young woman cried out in a most yearnful voice, "O tell us, you who are wise, how can we make ourselves as beautiful as Pandora!"
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And then a young woman cried out in a most yearnful voice, O tell us, you who are wise, how can we make ourselves as beautiful as Pandora!
Part I. The Voyage to Colchis. Chapter X. The Departure from Lemnos. The Golden Maid
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But as a senior he had picked up the glorified illusion that certain men were set aside for "service" and, going into the world, were to accomplish a vague yearnful something which would react either in eternal reward or, at the least, in the personal satisfaction of having striven for the greatest good of the greatest number.
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It abounded in emotion, and was -- to use the impossible word Keats coined -- "yearnful."
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This is the last of these letters to which one could apply so fitly the barbarous word “yearnful,” once coined by Keats.
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Ah! they were grand days, those deep, full days, when our coming life, like an unseen organ, pealed strange, yearnful music in our ears, and our young blood cried out like a war-horse for the battle.
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It worked well so far as the administration of the remedy was concerned, but it was fatal to my little, high strung, yearnful dog.
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While I dislike to appear cold and distant to one who seems so yearnful and so clinging, and while I do not wish to be regarded as purse-proud or arrogant, I must decline your kind offer to whack up.
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