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desiderata - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun desideratum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun plural desideratum .
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun desideratum .
Etymologies
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It is for this reason that the defensive alliance finally emerges as five compact little "groups" of demands, with the vital things directly affecting Chinese sovereignty labelled desiderata , so that Japanese ambassadors abroad could leave very warm assurances at every Foreign Office that there was nothing in what Japan desired which in any way conflicted with the Treaty rights of the
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
She retrieved these desiderata and placed them carefully in his basket.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
She retrieved these desiderata and placed them carefully in his basket.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
Indeed, if this is one of your desiderata , it would have been much better to be clear from the start.
Matthew Yglesias » Parallel 2009
The treatment is really elaborate and luscious, an object lesson in making the physical book into a piece of genuine desiderata , an artifact you want to own as well as read.
Boing Boing 2008
They were hard-headed and patriotic, and their desiderata were reasonable by comparison with the radicals ' utopian ideas about the Soviet Union.
Liberalism: An Autopsy R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. 2010
In the run-up to Obama's picking a secretary, two sides formed in a debate over the desiderata for a secretary and might have duked it out, but only one side was permitted to throw punches in public.
Gerald Bracey: The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond 2010
In the run-up to Obama's picking a secretary, two sides formed in a debate over the desiderata for a secretary and might have duked it out, but only one side was permitted to throw punches in public.
The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond 2010
Daily Pundit contributing author SteveF has added the following to his list of site desiderata :
dustbury.com » The Next Big Thing in spam control 2010
In the run-up to Obama's picking a secretary, two sides formed in a debate over the desiderata for a secretary and might have duked it out, but only one side was permitted to throw punches in public.
Gerald Bracey: The Hatchet Job On Linda Darling-Hammond 2009
chained_bear commented on the word desiderata
Usage on Beilby's ball.
September 7, 2008