Hypertext Webster Gateway: "yearning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Yearn \Yearn\ (y[~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yearned}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Yearning}.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of
OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman,
fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr,
Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS. ge
(see {Y-}).]
To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] ``She laments, sir, for
it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.'' --Shak.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
yearning
adj : full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little
ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds" [syn: {wistful}]
n : prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: {longing}]
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