yearnt

English

Verb

yearnt

1. (rare) simple past and past participle of yearn
   • 1871, John Edwardson, Hollowhill Farm. A Novel., volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 229:

     Come to me, my children—come to your future home, and come quickly, for this blow has been almost too much for my strength, and I yearnt to see you once more.

   • 1909, Bhagat Lakshman Singh, chapter VI, in A Short Sketch of the Life and Works of Guru Govind Singh, the 10th and Last Guru of the Sikhs, Lahore: […] “The Tribune Steam Press”, page 32:

     He yearnt for the adoption of the means wherewith he could inspire his people with the feelings of love, manliness and sacrifice.

   • 1917, H[yman] G[erson] Enelow, The Varied Beauty of the Psalms, New York, N.Y.: Bloch Publishing Company, page 58:

     Yearning is the beginning of spiritual life, of all possession of beauty and holiness. […] And if one lacks the yearning, one at least should yearn for the yearning. As David puts it: “I have yearnt a yearning, O Lord, for Thy righteousness!”

   • 1985 December, Geraldine Duffy, “The Jesus Myth”, in The Leninist, number 26, section “Jesus”, page 13, column 2:

     The real Jesus can only be seen against the background of a Palestine whose Jewish people yearnt for liberation, and a Jewish people whose culture produced not only countless freedom fighters banking on the knife, but countless freedom fighters banking on god helping to bring about the Kingdom of God in the world in place of the Roman Empire.

   • 1999, Georgina Brown, Like Mother, Like Daughter, Black Lace, published 2000, →ISBN, page 104:

     She yearnt for unseen fingers to handle her body, to pinch her nipples, to knead her breasts.

   • 2003, Pathfinder: A Way Through Swiss Graphics, IdNPRO, →ISBN, page 181:

     This immense success, however, which Victor [Frankenstein] yearnt for many years, soon turns out to be a failure: Victor falls sick of melancholy, and tries to escape from his superhuman creation.

   • 2007, Simon Jarvis, Wordsworth’s Philosophic Song, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     What is yearnt towards is a song ‘Of Truth that cherishes our daily life’.

   • 2008, Florence d’Harcourt, La loi du clan: Hauts-de-Seine, Éditions Edilivre Aparis, →ISBN, page 36:

     In my case I yearnt to make up to myself the youth I had lost.

   • 2017, Eric Lyghts Sr., God’s Inspiration and Love, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 34:

     What I yearnt for in this life.