Definition of Wish

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Definition of Wish

Wish

To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.

To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.

To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.

Desire; eager desire; longing.

Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.

A thing desired; an object of desire.

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Wish Quotations

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan

Wish Translations

wish in Afrikaans is verlang, wil
wish in Dutch is verkiezen, begeren, trek hebben in
wish in Finnish is tahtoa, haluta
wish in Italian is voto
wish in Latin is votum, desiderium, cupio, voluntas
wish in Portuguese is desejar, querer, desejo, anseio
wish in Spanish is deseo, voluntad, desear, tener

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