desideration

English

Etymology

Latin desideratio.

Noun

desideration (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

“desideration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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