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To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
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(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
(RQ:Spectator)
(RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop)
(RQ:Kipling Captains Courageous)
(RQ:London When God Laughs)
(quote-book) But his body would not be convinced.
(RQ:Montgomery Anne of the Island)
To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.
(quote-book)
(quote-book)|edition=1st American|location=London|publisher=Vintage Books|year=2002|page=137|isbn=978-0-670-03102-3|passage=Having shaken the dust of the ugly new South Africa from his feet, is he yearning for the South Africa of the old days, when Eden was still possible?
(RQ:Keats Lamia)
To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Reade Simpleton)
(RQ:Henry Adams Democracy) Mr. Ratcliffe’s heart yearned toward the charming girl quite with the sensations of a father, or even of an elder brother.
(RQ:Schreiner African Farm)
To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.
(RQ:Sterne Tristram Shandy)
''Often followed by'' out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.
To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).
(synonyms)
To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).
(RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Effingham Wilson|year=1833|page=31|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fieldbookorsport00maxw/page/31/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=57230597|passage=When the badger finds that the terriers yearn him in his burrow, he will stop the hole between him and the terriers; (..)
(quote-journal); and Henry Hooper,(nb...)|date=25 June 1834|volume=I|issue=13|page=98|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OkjJ-KxKSVsC&pg=PA98|column=1|oclc=276731836|passage=Wants to sneeze and cannot do it! / Now it yearns me, thrills me, stings me, / Now with rapturous torment wrings me, / Now says “Sneeze, you fool; get through it.”
(quote-journal)
{{quote-book|en|year=1979|author=Norman Mailer|url=https://books.google.ie/books?id=WRE2AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT326|title=The Executioner's Song
{{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Frank Buchmann-Moller|title=Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster|page=57|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0472025988
{{quote-journal|en|date=February 13 2014|author=AFP|titleurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308151424/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11201369|title=Why internet adultery numbers are soaring|journal=New Zealand Herald
Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
To make (cheese) from curdled milk.
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 2)