desideration

noun — 2 senses

desideration

noun

Etymology Latin desideratio.

1

The act of desiderating.

2

Something desired.

  • Coriander-seed might correct it[…]The very desideration!1836, Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia:

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