To yearn for something is to want it really bad. You might yearn for freedom or you might yearn for a perfect tamale. Usually you yearn for something or someone you can't easily get.
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
Verb
have affection for; feel tenderness for
Verb
have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
Verb
desire strongly or persistently
v. t.
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
v. i.
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
v. i. & t.
To curdle, as milk.
v. i.
To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or
rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain
with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
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It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
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Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep.
Your mother's heart yearns towards you.
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
To curdle, as milk.
To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
Usage Examples
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
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Other Usage ExamplesI love those who yearn for the impossible.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
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