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  • verb archaic Second-person singular present simple form of desire

Etymologies

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desire + -est

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Examples

  • I will show thee the secret of this craft which thou desirest to learn.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He then fared forth from her and sought the King and said, “Go thou in to her and speak her softly and promise her what may please her; so shall all thou desirest of her be accomplished to thee.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But that which thou desirest, to tax all our estate!

    "American Prayer" of the damned. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Said Faghfur, “Naught hath brought thee hither save some need which hath occurred to thee; and whatso thou desirest of my country I will accomplish it to the.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • Then said the king, “Choose for thyself a horse, and whatso thing else thou desirest among my matters.”

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • And if thou desirest to know their names and lineage I will tell thee all.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Edward, thou shalt go with me as thou desirest; thou shalt prove the life for which I have long thought thee best fitted — thou shalt aid, my son, this trembling hand of mine to sustain the Holy Ark, which bold unhallowed men press rashly forward to touch and to profane. —

    The Monastery 2008

  • Go to — thou art made, if thou desirest to be so. —

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • So Sulayman called for Ikrimah, who approached and saluted him as Caliph; and the King welcomed him and making him draw near his sitting-place, said to him, “O Ikrimah, thy good deed to him hath brought thee naught but evil,” adding, “Now write down in a note thy needs each and every, and that which thou desirest.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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