Legal Definition and Related Resources of Desire

Wish or long for, covet, crave. As used in a will, the term usually denotes a request , a recommendation. However, according to context, the term may be one of disposition and not of mere recommendation. See Shevlin v colony Lutheran church , 88 j S.E.2d 674, 227 S. C. 598.

noun

• ambition
• appetency
• appetite
• appetitio
• ardent impulse
• ardor
• aspiration
• attraction
• avidity
• bent
• concupiscence
• covetousness
• craving
• cupiditas
• cupidity
• desiderium
• eagerness
• fancy
• fondness
• hankering
• hunger
• impulse
• inclination
• liking
• longing
• lust
• motive
• predilection
• proclivity
• propensity
• rapaciousness
• thirst
• urge
• want
• will
• wish
• yearning
• yen Associated Concepts: precatory words

verb

• apply for
• ask
• ask for
• aspire
• be after
• be bent upon
• be eager
• beg a favor
• call for
• clamor for
• covet
• crave
• cry out for
• cupere
• desiderare
• desiderate
• entreat
• expetere
• express a wish to obtain
• have a impulse
• have a proclivity
• have a yearning
• have an appetite
• have designs on
• have one’s heart set on
• hope for
• incline
• like to
• long for
• make a request for
• make application for
• press
• pursue
• put in a claim for
• request
• solicit
• supplicate
• urge
• want
• wish for Associated Concepts: precatory words

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