Word Finder - yearning

definition

To long, have a strong desire (for something).

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All I yearn for is a simple life.

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To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.

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To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).

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To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

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To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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To curdle, as milk.

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A wistful or melancholy longing.

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She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

She found herself yearning for friends again.

The sense of yearning was deep.

She'd never experienced yearning like this, so strong it threatened to consume her.

When the disciples returned, Jesus took them apart for rest; but the crowds reassembled when they found Him again near the lake, and His yearning compassion for these shepherdless sheep led Him to give them an impressive sign that He had indeed come to supply all human needs.

There is a great yearning for peace around this world.

It is that in God which is not God Himself, it is the yearning of the eternal One to give birth to itself.

He had to let her go, but the sense of yearning and pain was too strong for her to sleep.

Deidre yielded, alarmed but yearning.

Forced into hiding by the circumstances of the past two weeks, Gabriel's yearning for his mate emerged stronger than ever at her passionate kisses and touch.

Here at last his long yearning for some great theme worthy of his historic genius was gratified.

A look of pained yearning crossed the girl's face, as if she wanted badly to speak but couldn't.

His most ardent admirers, however, are constrained to admit that he was deficient in large-hearted benevolence; that he was destitute of any " enthusiasm of humanity "; and that so far as every sort of religious yearning or aspiration is concerned, his poverty was almost unique.

He should be fighting bloodlust by now, yet it had simply disappeared, replaced by longing for something more, a yearning to be part of this woman, to be everything to her, and for her.

Many also came with yearning of soul to enjoy the bliss of God.

Send me your poor, huddled masses yearning to pay me rent.

You can begin to feel the yearning in a blade of grass.

O yearning heart, that never can be still !

Desire and yearning crept into him, knowing she was so close.

Sometimes, she heard longing in his voice, the same yearning she experience for him.

Taran's attention swept to the walls behind him, and he felt a pang of yearning and regret.

He nipped her neck, and she gasped, yearning and fire tearing through her.

Would he now accept the Austrian terms and gain a not disadvantageous peace, for which France was yearning?

It was a sign of his history, of his past, and he regarded it with both yearning and regret.

She focused on what he said to keep herself distracted from the yearning growing in her body.

The statement was met with glazed eyes and yearning smiles.

They are used to communicating a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.

For all those of you yearning for a sordid account of drunken debauchery.

My yearning for discovery now had a focus; my oceans would be libraries, my terra nova the workings of his mind.

They don't satisfy the yearning of your soul and there's no joy.

They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.

City comedy tho is predicated not on a nostalgic yearning for past ideal states but on the ' reality ' of urban life.

Among many champions of cyberspace also we see an intense yearning for transcendence over the limitations of the body.

The numbness may be replaced by a deep yearning for the person who has died.

There was an enormous yearning in me to go into solitude in order to develop my will.

The baritone soloist expresses the yearning of the Jews to return to Jerusalem and their responsibility to remember and cherish it.

With his soulful eyes and earnest charm, he was able to perfectly capture the character's yearning for a better life.

If you're still yearning to learn to speak French like a native, why not seek out a native speaker and offer to barter practice time or lessons?

Sakura's food is a vacation from the mundane, featuring bold, exotic flavors that will leave your yearning for more.

Fried fish, potato salad, seasoned rice, candied yams, and greens---this is the kind of fare that will fill you up and leave you yearning for more.

Kiera found she truly was happy for her, though her own happiness was clouded by a sense of sadness and yearning.

This perception combines, as understanding, with the primal yearning, which becomes thereby free creative will, and works formatively in the originally lawless nature or ground.

Even Socrates, in spite of his aversion to physics, was led by pious reflection to expound a teleological view of the physical world, as ordered in all its parts by divine wisdom for the realization of some divine end; and, in the metaphysical turn which Plato gave to this view, he was probably anticipated by Euclid of Megara, who held that the one real being is " that which we call by many names, Good, Wisdom, Reason or God," to which Plato, raising to a loftier significance the Socratic identification of the beautiful with the useful, added the further name of Absolute Beauty, explaining how man's love of the beautiful finally reveals itself as the yearning for the end and essence of being.

It is one of the few examples of free corporate action on the part of the ancient Greek cities, whose centrifugal yearning for independence so often proved fatal to the Hellenic world.

It is in contemplating the abstract reality which concrete things obscurely exhibit, the type or ideal which they imperfectly imitate, that the true life of the mind in man must consist; and as man is most truly man in proportion as he is mind, the desire of one's own good, which Plato, following Socrates, held to be permanent and essential in every living thing, becomes in its highest form the philosophic yearning for knowledge.

Christian love is conceived (after Augustine) as primarily love to God (beyond the natural yearning of the creature after its ultimate good), which expands into love towards all God's creatures as created by him, and so ultimately includes even self-love.

It was the natural yearning of that portion, any portion of our most primitive ancestor which still survived in us.

Vast reservoirs of power are created by the spirit of the age, formless, like the tense yearning gained from all things.

The emotional dynamics are similar to mystical yearning, except that the self-pity factor is different.

All through the lonely hours my heart is yearning, When whispering echoes softly call your name.

They do n't satisfy the yearning of your soul and there 's no joy.