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- noun Plural form of
desire . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
desire .
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Examples
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Or, if you will, the sum of his desires is his soul.
Chapter 26 2010
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The most powerful and universal of all our desires is the desire of food, and of those things, such as clothing, houses, etc., which are immediately necessary to relieve us from the pains of hunger and cold.
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After the desire of food, the most powerful and general of our desires is the passion between the sexes, taken in an enlarged sense.
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Or, if you will, the sum of his desires is his soul.
Chapter 26 1904
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But remember, acknowledging petty desires is not the same as being petty.
Dyane Jean François: Mindfulness 101 Dyane Jean François 2010
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But remember, acknowledging petty desires is not the same as being petty.
Dyane Jean François: Mindfulness 101 Dyane Jean François 2010
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(Although I have become convinced that much, beyond basic desires, is going on.)
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But remember, acknowledging petty desires is not the same as being petty.
Dyane Jean François: Mindfulness 101 Dyane Jean François 2010
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The internet has made available all types of sick and demented images that feed certain desires that would otherwise lay dormant in a person who is prone to becoming a sex offender.
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What it desires is a healthy industrial, business and intellectual individualism, a free and open competition in which the best is always bound to come to the surface.
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010
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