Longed

ppl. a. [f. LONG v. + -ED¹.] Earnestly desired. Now always longed-for; formerly also (poet.) without the adv., as if from a transitive use of the vb.

1526.  Tindale, Phil. iv. i. Brethren dearly beloved and longed for.

a. 1592.  H. Smith, 6 Serm. (1618), C 7 b. May not the fastned Ship in a strange Land desire to bee loosed, to hasten to his longed for Port at home?

1595.  Shaks., John, IV. ii. 8. Fresh expectation troubled not the Land With any long’d for change, or better State.

1601.  Breton, Longing Blessed Heart (Grosart), 10/2. She went all weeping … And would not cease vntill her loue might haue Her longèd fruite.

1721.  Ramsay, Content, 206. Our long’d-for bliss.

c. 1800.  H. K. White, Poems (1830), 134. I … will smile With joy that I have got my long’d release.

1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. li. 19. The longed-for mother.

1898.  W. K. Johnson, Terra Tenebr., 120. She sees the longed-for strand.