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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Yearn  \Yearn\  (y[~e]rn),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Yearned};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Yearning}.]  [Also  earn,  ern;  probably  a  corruption  of 
  OE  ermen  to  grieve,  AS  ierman,  yrman,  or  geierman  geyrman, 
  fr  earm  wretched,  poor;  akin  to  D.  &  G.  arm,  Icel.  armr, 
  Goth.  arms.  The  y-  in  English  is  perhaps  due  to  the  AS  ge 
  (see  {Y-}).] 
  To  pain;  to  grieve;  to  vex.  [Obs.]  ``She  laments,  sir,  for 
  it  that  it  would  yearn  your  heart  to  see  it.''  --Shak. 
 
  It  yearns  me  not  if  men  my  garments  wear.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  yearning 
  adj  :  full  of  longing  or  unfulfilled  desire;  "those  wistful  little 
  ads  that  the  lovelorn  place  in  the  classifieds"  [syn:  {wistful}] 
  n  :  prolonged  unfulfilled  desire  or  need  [syn:  {longing}] 




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