| Sentence | 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. |
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| Definition | ( transitive , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive idiomatic ) To https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic anticipate , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anticipate expect , or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/expect wait for, especially with a feeling of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wait approval or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/approval pleasure . Be excited or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleasure eager to.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eager |
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