LONGING, LONGINGLY
ADJECTIVES
..888 ► OFLIST → OFLUST possessed with a strong desire; affected with longing → obs.
1000 ► OFLONGED seized or overcome with longing → obs.
1400 ► FAINING longing, wistful → obs.
1634 ► YAWNING longing after something → obs.
1651 ► CONCUPITIVE vehemently desirous; characterized by desire or longing; of the nature of concupiscence → obs.
1827 ► LANGSOME longing, desirous, wistful → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1857 ► EARNSTFUL earnest; with great longing or yearning → Eng. dial.
1857 ► YEARNSFUL earnest; with great longing or yearning → Eng. dial.
1878 ► YERNSFUL → YERNSTFUL earnest; with great longing or yearning → Eng. dial. obs.
1902 ► ON THE LANG desirous, longing → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1969 ► DESIREFUL filled with desire or longing → Amer. dial.
ADVERBS
1230 ► EARN earnestly, longingly → obs.
1570 ► SITHINGLY with a sigh; longingly, yearningly → obs.
NOUNS
1200 ► ANSINE a looking for, longing, desire, want → obs.
1300 ► YERING desire, longing; request → obs.
1320 ► ONDE strong desire, longing → obs.
1619 ► OREXIS a desire or longing
1640 ► DESIDERATE a thing that is desired; something for which a desire or longing is felt → obs.
1773 ► EISNING a strong desire or longing of any kind → Sc.
1796 ► LETCH a craving, a longing
1857 ► OPSOMANIA a morbid longing for dainties or for some particular food
1902 ► LANG a longing, desire → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MENKIN a longing, a craving → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAMPING a crazy longing → Sc. (Bk.)
1949 ► CALF-EYES a look expressive of tender or sentimental longing → Amer. dial.
1966 ► CALF’S EYES a look expressive of tender or sentimental longing → Amer. dial.
1970 ► LUS a yearning; a longing → S. Afr. sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1842 ► OPSOMANIAC one having a morbid longing for dainties or for some particular food