Emily Dickinson Lexicon

demand, n. [Fr. demande; see demand, v.] (webplay: ask, common, grace, making, obtain, right, seek, will).

1. Desire; need; yearning; intense longing to possess; [fig.] asking; prayer; petition.
2. Duty; affair; obligation; responsibility; matter of concern; [fig.] commanding beauty; irresistible attraction.
3. Call to have; requisition to purchase; desire to buy.