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Meanings of yearned-for in English

Greatly desired.

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        Examples for "longed-for"
        1
        You have cut open the golden apple; you have the longed-for portfolio.
        Frederick the Great and His Court
        2
        They're suited and booted and finally getting their longed-for careers under way.
        The Irish Times
        3
        At last the longed-for shift of wind came and set us free.
        The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales
        4
        He uttered a triumphant chuckle as he drew out the longed-for vial.
        The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger
        5
        There, at any rate, the longed-for marvels seemed to be within reach.
        My Life — Volume 2
        1
        The first question to decide was the ownership of the wished-for country.
        The Winning of the West, Volume 3 / The Founding of the Trans-Al...
        2
        At length word was brought that the long-wished-for vessel was in sight.
        Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
        3
        Williams records the long-wished-for fact in his journal: 'Cloudy and threatening weather.
        Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
        4
        Then he rang the bell, and Hannah entered with the wished-for candles.
        Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
        5
        A shout of joy burst from each canoe at the long-wished-for sight.
        Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
        Usage of yearned-for in English
        1
        Scraps of yearned-for spring transformed to a taste of its slipping past.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The next day began in earnest the long-yearned-for time of rest.
        Four Girls and a Compact
        3
        The happy and long-yearned-for day, the 25th of June, had dawned at last.
        Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
        4
        The incident now began to take on the nature of Helen's long-yearned-for adventure.
        The Light of the Western Stars
        5
        Another youngest sibling, but this time the yearned-for boy finally appearing after three girls.
        After the fall
        6
        But then Matt always had been the yearned-for parent.
        French pressed
        7
        The long yearned-for meeting took place at last.
        Combed Out
        8
        There is no new thing under the sun, not even that yearned-for bauble of feeble souls-immortality
        John Barleycorn
        9
        They have been talking about this guy for some time in Ireland as the much-yearned-for next Brian O'Driscoll.
        The Guardian