eye-seken.
Explained in N.E.D. (1894) as: eyesickness; yearning. An editorial misreading of ȝen sueke, perhaps meaning ‘that illness’.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun]
ondeeOE
yearningeOE
longingOE
forlonginga1250
mourningc1300
yering13..
eye-seke?c1500
panting1580
greening1584
smackeringa1586
brame1590
languora1599
earning1603
lingering1608
yawning1635
tantalizing1640
slavering1642
longingness1651
tantalization1654
twittering1668
hankering1678
honing1725
lech1796
yearna1797
languishment1817
yearningness1839
hanker1881
tantalizingness1889
yen1906
?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 1577 A-woyd, awoyd, I wax all seke, I wyll to bed þis same tyde. I am so wexyd with ȝen sueke, Þat hath ner to deth me dyth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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