Wished-for

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  1. 1
    greatly desired wordnet

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hoped forlonged-forpopularwantedyearned-for

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"There in glad haste I trace the wished-for town, / and call the walls "Pergamea", and cheer / my comrades, glorying in the name well-known, / the castled keep to raise, and guard the loved hearth-stone."

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