desideration

English

Etymology

Latin desideratio.

Noun

desideration (countable and uncountable, plural desiderations)

  1. The act of desiderating.
  2. Something desired.
    • 1836, Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia:
      Coriander-seed might correct it […] The very desideration!

References
  • desideration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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