All 5 Uses

yearn
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Bless Me, Ultima
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I yearned for my mother, and at the same time I understood that she had sent me to this place where I was an outcast.†
Chpt 6 *

yearned = strongly desired
My three brothers would be coming home, and I yearned for them.†
Chpt 7
I wondered if I would grow up too fast, I yearned for knowledge and understanding and yet I wondered if it would make me lose my dreams.†
Chpt 9
He too had heard them planning new adventures together, and he knew that come spring when his yearning to move west filled him that there would be no one to go with him.†
Chpt 15

yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
The bad blood of spring filled us with strange yearnings and tumult, and the boys from Los Jaros split off from the boys from town and there were gang fights.†
Chpt 20

yearnings = strong desires

Definitions:

(1) (yearn)
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)