"athirst" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:6:",
          "text": "I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.",
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          "ref": "1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264:",
          "text": "To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]",
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 1”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.",
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          "ref": "1817, John Keats, Sonnet (Written on a blank space at the end of Chaucer’s tale of ‘The Floure And The Leafe’:",
          "text": "I, that forever feel athirst for glory,\nCould at this moment be content to lie\nMeekly upon the grass, as those whose sobbings\nWere heard of none beside the mournful robins.",
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          "ref": "1878, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Ave Atque Vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire)”, in Poems and Ballads, Second Series, Stanza IV:",
          "text": "O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping,\nThat were athirst for sleep and no more life\nAnd no more love, for peace and no more strife!",
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          "text": "1913, Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, translated from the Bengali by the author, 5,\nI am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.\nMy soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance."
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        "Eager or extremely desirous (for something)."
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        "(figuratively) Eager or extremely desirous (for something)."
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          "text": "To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]",
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          "text": "Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.",
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          "text": "1913, Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, translated from the Bengali by the author, 5,\nI am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.\nMy soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance."
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