1. 12 Devout dedication was the desideratum for soul-sacrifice.

2. Ambition: See: desideratum , design , desire , end , goal , intent , intention , objective , outlook , plan , project , prospect , purpose , pursuit , target

3. These desiderata, not furnished by conventional butterfly valves, are achieved in the Edinburgh design, in which an occluder of suitable aerofoil shape is mounted pivotally in a housing of conical or similarly divergent bore.