Usage History of 'wistful'

The following chart shows how frequently 'wistful' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'wistful' occurred 6 times in books in 1581 and 67,260 times in 2008. From 1581 to 2008, the word 'wistful' was used a total of 957,702 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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