OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4365

want

/wɒnt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
afán • anhelo • deseo
A desire, wish, longing.
falta
Lack, absence, deficiency.
She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
[H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
egestad
Poverty.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
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