yearning1 (yerning)

[ All the herte festenede in the zernynge of Ihesu es turned in-to the fyre of lufe. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), р. 2. yearning The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal. Channing, Perfect Life, p. 176.