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Wanting

adjective

1.

Nonexistent. Synonyms: absent, lacking, missing. "Her appetite was lacking"

2.

Inadequate in amount or degree. Synonyms: deficient, lacking. "Deficient in common sense" , "Lacking in stamina" , "Tested and found wanting"

Want

verb

(past & past part. wanted; pres. part. wanting)

1.

Feel or have a desire for; want strongly. Synonym: desire. "I want my own room"

2.

Have need of. Synonyms: need, require.

3.

Hunt or look for; want for a particular reason. "Uncle Sam wants you"

4.

Wish or demand the presence of.

5.

Be without, lack; be deficient in. "Want the strength to go on living" , "Flood victims wanting food and shelter"

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"Wanting" Quotes from Famous Books

... good for now. That's where the axe went in, and anybody but Harry Alton might have fired me. It was my own blame foolishness, too, but when the doctor told him Harry comes to me. 'You needn't worry about one thing, anyway. There'll be a job for you just so long as you're wanting it,'" says he. ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... are truly one of those Scottish soldiers of the Swedish hero who fight so stoutly for the Faith and of whose deeds we have heard so much!" the pastor said. "Truly we are glad to see you. Our prayers have not been wanting night and morning for the success of the champions of the Reformed Faith. What say you, my friend? Shall we take the advice of this young soldier and venture our lives for the defence ...

— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty

... to consider them as reliable; or, if the latter points be lacking from the supernatural character of the occurrences related, yet the evidence of authenticity may be so overwhelming as to place the accuracy of the accounts beyond cavil. But if external evidence be wanting, and internal evidence be fatal to the truthfulness of the writings, then it will become our duty to remove them from the temple of history, and to place them in the fairy gardens of fancy and of myth, where they ...

— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant

... thy hand, that I may helpe thee out, Or wanting strength to doe thee so much good, I may be pluckt into the swallowing wombe, Of this deepe pit, poore Bassianus graue: I haue no strength to plucke thee to ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... glad you have come, Gordon,' he said. 'I was wanting to see you. I have got things nearly ready now. Next month, or at latest, the one after, we shall sail; and I have some business with you which had better be arranged at once. No one knows what is going to happen. The man who believes the least in ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

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