desideration
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editdesideration (countable and uncountable, plural desiderations)
- The act of desiderating.
- Something desired.
- 1836, Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia:
- Coriander-seed might correct it […] The very desideration!
References
edit- “desideration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.