Definition of "desiring" []

• Present participle of desire. (verb)
• A yearning for; a want (noun)

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• "Of her they said that desiring to take vengeance for her brother, whom the Egyptians had slain when he was their king and then, after having slain, him he had given his kingdom to her, —desiring, I say, to take vengeance for him, she destroyed by craft many of the Egyptians."
• "And academics resolved which a Government was mistaken in desiring which a classes would either urge preparation or a earnings intensity of workers as good as their companies."
• "I also wonder that if the post had been written by a man, whether people would be as quick say that it's OK be "hypocritical" in desiring someone who's culturally-approved skinny when they're not."