A wistful or melancholy longing.
She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
present participle and gerund of yearn
I've got this burning, yearning, yearning / Feeling inside me / Ooh, deep inside me / And it hurts so bad
From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz...
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