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单词 longed
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longedadj.

Brit. /lɒŋd/, U.S. /lɔŋd/, /lɑŋd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: long v.1, -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < long v.1 + -ed suffix1. Compare oflonged adj.
= longed-for adj. at Compounds. Now rare.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [adjective] > longed for
longed1572
thirsted?1611
suspireda1639
yearned1797
1572 T. Churchyard tr. Ovid Thre First Bookes De Tristibus iii. f. 19 Hast on prouoke I humblye pray, the lingring longed fates [L. cessantia fata], And let not death be able eft, to shut his grisely gates.
1601 N. Breton Longing Blessed Heart sig. Dv She went all weeping..And would not cease vntill her loue might haue Her longed fruite.
1639 J. Sherburne tr. Ovid Heroical Epist. sig. G5v When to my friends the longed day [L. dies..optata] arrives.
1744 London Mag. Feb. 96/1 Oft thy lov'd Hamilton and thee I chace, In sportive mood, and strain the long'd embrace.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 39 I..will smile With joy that I have got my long'd release.
1861 C. W. Wills Let. 30 Sept. in Army Life Illinois Soldier (1906) 34 We thought from the noise that the longed fight had come at last for certain.
1918 E. Gruse Echoes of Democracy 44 Let this be fulfilled dreams, which prophets told The longed millennium, Time's Burst of Dawn.
1999 G. Pollock Differencing Canon ii. 48 The necessary, Oedipal expulsion from a longed but prohibited intimacy.
2009 D. Salinas Lat. Amer. Evangelical Theol. 1970's iv. 93 Unity was only a longed ideal.

Compounds

longed-for adj. strongly desired, yearned for.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Phil. iv. i Brethren dearly beloved and longed for [Gk. ἐπιπόθητοι].]
a1591 H. Smith Six Serm. (1618) sig. C7v May not the fastned Ship in a strange Land desire to be loosed, to hasten to his longed for Port at home?
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 8 Fresh expectation troubled not the Land With any long'd-for-change, or better State. View more context for this quotation
1721 A. Ramsay Content 206 Our long'd-for bliss.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. vii. li. 19 The longed-for mother.
1898 W. K. Johnson Terra Tenebrarum 120 She sees the longed-for strand.
1952 C. B. MacDonald & S. T. Mathews Three Battles 165/2 It seemed the longed-for relief would never come.
2002 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 3 Sept. The seductive aroma of a longed-for meal.
longed-after adj. now rare = longed-for adj.
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1828 D. Nasmith Let. 13 July in J. Campbell Mem. David Nasmith (1844) x. 155 Her much-loved and greatly longed after father.
1859 Robbers of Caucasus 21, in Tales of Bandits, Robbers, & Smugglers Persuaded that he should never be able to reach the longed after destination.
1992 C. L. Rothgeb & S. M. Clemens Abstr. Coll. Wks. C. G. Jung 92/1 The longed after coniunctio of conscious and unconscious.
2008 S. Waisman tr. M. Azuela Underdogs ii. 103 The longed-after lover whom they had not seen in a long time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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