Yearnings
[jɜ:nɪŋz]
Definition
(n. pl.) The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.
Edited by Albert
Examples
- I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But Mrs. Dunkirk had qualms and yearnings about her daughter, who had long been regarded as lost both to God and her parents. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The yearnings of to-day are the symptoms of needs, they point the course of invention, they are the energies which animate a social program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I had vague, indistinct yearnings to be a sort of emancipator,--to free my native land from this spot and stain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Edited by Albert