And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if youwanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when wewant it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
Iwant to find a supermarket. — Oh, okay. The supermarket is at 1500 Irving Street. It is near the apartment. — Great!
(by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
The game developers of Candy Crushwant you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
Depressionwants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
2019 May 5, "The Last of the Starks",Game of Thrones season 8 episode 4 (written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss):
TYRION: You don't want it?
BRAN: I don't reallywant anymore.
(colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something(compareshould,ought).
You’llwant to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
(transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of orrequire (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).[from 15th c.]
1741,The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794, page559:
The lady, it is said, will inherit a fortune of three hundred pounds a year, with two cool thousands left by an uncle, on her arriving at the age of twenty-one, of which shewants but a few months.
1839,Chambers's Journal, page123:
Oh Jeanie, it will be hard, after every thing is ready for our happiness, if we should be sundered. Itwants but a few days o' Martinmas, and then I maun enter on my new service on Loch Rannoch, where a bonny shieling is ready ...
1847,The American Protestant, page27:
In this we have just read an address to children in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in behalf of children whowant food to keep them from starvation.
They of the Citie fought valiantly with Engines, Darts, Arrows: and when Stoneswanted, they threw Silver, especially molten silver.
a.1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Preface”, inThe Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden,[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), London:[…]J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson,[…], published1760,→OCLC:
The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those arewanting or imperfect, so muchwants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.
1711 May, [Alexander Pope],An Essay on Criticism, London:[…] W[illiam] Lewis[…]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor[…], T[homas] Osborn[e][…], and J[ohn] Graves[…],→OCLC:
For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find / Whatwants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.
(intransitive,dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy:[…], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 7:
he that hath skill to be a pilotwants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth[…]wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.
The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to Dotage, and entirely lose their Memories; these meet with more Pity and Assistance, because theywant many bad Qualities which abound in others.
[…] which the Kings of Assyria had left for the maintenance of this Temple sacrifices, after the ouerthrow thereof, was shared among the Chaldzans; which they by this attempt were like to lose, and therefore were willing towant his presence.
1789 Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying; But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning, And saw each bed-post with itsburthen a-groaning, Astonish'd,confounded, cries Satan-"By God, I'llwant him, ere I take such a damnable load!"
1797,The European Magazine, and London Review, page226:
For Law, Physick and Divinitie, need so the help of tongs and sciences, as thei can notwant them, and yet thei require so a hole mans studie, as thei may parte with no tyme to other lerning, ...
1880 Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped
"Are yesharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that dropparritch." I said I feared it was his own supper. "Oh," said he, "I can do finewanting it, I'll take the ale, though, for itslockens my cough." He drank the cup about half out, still keeping an eye upon me as he drank...
Don't, don't youwant me? / You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me / Don't, don't youwant me? / You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
Japanese:欲しい(ja)(ほしい, hoshii),欲する(ja)(ほっする, hossuru),望む(ja)(のぞむ, nozomu),...たい(...tai) (-i verb base + -tai),...たがる(...tagaru) (-i verb base + -tagaru, 2nd and 3rd person, 1st person only in the form of "たがっても")
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After a search which produced most of the things on ourwants list, we went down to picnic on the shore in the sunshine-with a good stretch of shingle behind us over which no triffid could approach unheard.
[H]eavens and honour be witness, that nowant of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
1592, John Lyly,Midas; republished in Charles Wentworth Dilke, editor,Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers[3], volume 1, London: Whittingham and Rowland,1814:
Lic. She hath the ears of awant. /Pec. Doth she want ears?
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page102
