Definition of "yearnings" []

• Plural form of yearning. (noun)

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• "Since the spiritual world is impenetrable except in dreams (and yearnings, which is what dreams are), Civeyrac seems to be saying that film is one way of getting close to it, or watching a character try."
• "God never gives mouths but He sends meat to fill them; and He has not suffered His children to long after Him, to press after Him, only in order that the partial fulfilment of their desires and yearnings which is possible upon earth should be all their experience."
• "This then represents the current "yearnings" of Nigerians; hence to interpret section 145 of the Constitution narrowly will defeat this mass thinking."