7.12.02

Tou em dúvida sobre meu mood...
Não sei se uso Longing ou Wistful... Eitha decisão difícil... Definir o que se sente...

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Wistful \Wist"ful\, a. [For wishful; perhaps influenced by
wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly (from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See {Wish}.]
1. Longing; wishful; desirous.

Lifting up one of my sashes, I cast many a wistful,
melancholy look towards the sea. --Swift.


2. Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

That he who there at such an hour hath been, Will
wistful linger on that hallowed spot. --Byron.


-- {Wist"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Wist"ful*ness}, n.


wistful
adj 1: full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds" [syn: {yearning}]
2: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [syn: {pensive}]
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Long \Long\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Longed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Longing}.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See {Long}, a.]
1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something or someone with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.

I long to see you. --Rom. i. 11.

I have longed after thy precepts. --Ps. cxix.
40.

I have longed for thy salvation. --Ps. cxix.
174.

Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with
fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea.
--Arbuthnot.

2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.]

The labor which that longeth unto me. --Chaucer.


Longing \Long"ing\, n.
An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.
--Shak.


longing
n : prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: {yearning}]

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