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gape for en · VERB
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(archaic) To strongly desire, yearn for.
"When we have meat, and drink, and clothing, let us be content," let us not gape for riches; for I tell you it is a dangerous thing to have riches.
1844 [1552], Hugh Latimer, “The Seventh Sermon upon the Lord's Prayer”, in Sermons, page 442:That very few are fled for religion other than such as were not able to live at home but in beggary, or discontented for lack of preferment which they gaped for unworthily in universities and other places; or bankrupt merchants etc.
1914 [1584], William Allen, Allen's Defence of English Catholics, 1584, volume 1, page 63:
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