gape for
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]gape for (third-person singular simple present gapes for, present participle gaping for, simple past and past participle gaped for)
- (archaic) To strongly desire, yearn for.
- 1844 [1552], Hugh Latimer, “The Seventh Sermon upon the Lord's Prayer”, in Sermons, page 442:
- "When we have meat, and drink, and clothing, let us be content," let us not gape for riches; for I tell you it is a dangerous thing to have riches.
- 1914 [1584], William Allen, Allen's Defence of English Catholics, 1584, volume 1, page 63:
- That very few are fled for religion other than such as were not able to live at home but in beggary, or discontented for lack of preferment which they gaped for unworthily in universities and other places; or bankrupt merchants etc.
References
[edit]- “gape, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
