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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Yearn \Yearn\ (y[~e]rn), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Yearned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yearning}.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman, fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr, Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS. ge (see {Y-}).] To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] ''She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.'' --Shak.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
yearning
adjective: full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds" [syn: {wistful}]
noun: prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: {longing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "yearning": Amor, Christian love, Eros, Heimweh, Platonic love, aching, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, desiderium, desire, devotion, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, hankering, heart, hero worship, homesick, homesickness, honing, idolatry, idolism, idolization, languishing, languishment, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, longing, love, lovemaking, mal du pays, maladie du pays, married love, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, passion, physical love, pining, popular regard, popularity, regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, weakness, wishful, wistful, worship, yearnful, yen
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