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What does longed-for mean?

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Adjective
  1. That is longed for.
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Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype.
Despite being described as the most exciting and wide-ranging British actor since Daniel Day-Lewis, fatherhood has been his longed-for role.
Three years ago, she began the search for a clinic which could give her the longed-for fourth baby.
In my part of the country, the oppressive days of late summer are now past, and the first hint of the longed-for winter rains have teased us by speckling the dusty ground.
The habitual, gentle and ordinarily longed-for oblivion of the end of the day had morphed into something considerably more sinister.
Crucial documentation surrounding the case is currently being studied by counsel in the hope of launching proceedings which could result in a longed-for conviction.

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