LekhoriLekhoriThat wants or desires.
Absent or lacking.
Already Cæſar Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword: Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.
Deficient.
Kate felt privileged to have been permitted to speak through it and she was glad that, as before, she had been judged and not found wanting
Without, except, but.
Less, short of, minus.
present participle and gerund of want
The state of wanting something; desire.
Choice occurs only when we experience a conflict of wantings.
From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing.
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