noun
definition
An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
definition
The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise
Examples of longings in a Sentence
Since the soul in its longings reaches forth beyond all sensible things, beyond the world of ideas even, it follows that the highest being must be something supra-rational.
Life is too short to suffer the repetition of an old man's longings or regrets.
In this gospel we must be done with the outer world, participation in which is not the self, yet means for the self birth and death, appetites, longings, emotions, change and suffering, pleasure and pain.
The longing expressed by people looking toward the new age of the Messiah are the longing expressed by people looking toward the new age of the Messiah are the longings of people today.
All my dreams and longings have come to fruition in a single instant when dearest Joshua held me close and my world was sunshine.
But ye are not so, for they who are of Christ have crucified the flesh, with all lusts and longings.