What is "yearner"

Usage examples of "yearner".

And I am come to help you shed away your extra skins - your fig-leaf aprons - that you may help all yearners in the world to shed away theirs, too.

Mirdad would have you understand that you may help all yearners to understand.

All of them self-defeating, all worthy of love, all yearners for culture, kindness, and the spirit, the four Prozorovs are quite enough to break the heart of any playgoer.

Abe Jones when Eugene first knew him: dreary, tortured, melancholy, dully intellectual and joylessly poetic, his spirit gloomily engulfed in a great cloud of Yiddish murk, a grey pavement cipher, an atom of the slums, a blind sea-crawl in the drowning tides of the man-swarm, and yet, pitifully, tremendously, with a million other dreary Hebrew yearners, convinced that he was the Messiah for which the earth was groaning.

But Georgie heard nothing of this, and the yearners for his talking down went unsatisfied, while their yearning grew the greater as the happy day of fulfilment was longer and longer postponed.