Definition of "yearned" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of yearn. (verb)

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• "The reverend gentleman, however, had not been unobservant of the charms of other maidens with whom he had been brought in contact, so, it may be presumed that his heart had "yearned" in vain for them; or, peradventure, these had not played with him so dexterously, when once hooked, as did the fair"
• "And my heart has kind of yearned over that boy from the first, but just because he had Marthy's eyes he kept bringin 'up the past to me, and I never looked at him without rememberin' how hard and unforgivin 'I'd ben to her, and thinkin' if I'd petted and humored her a little and made life pleasanter, perhaps she'd never have gone away."
• "I do not know by what fatality it has happened, but so it is; that I have thought more often of you, and I may say, "yearned" after your society more for the last three months than I ever before did, and yet I have not written to you."