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Beg

verb

(past & past part. begged; pres. part. begging)

Call upon in supplication; entreat. Synonyms: implore, pray.

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently. Synonyms: solicit, tap. "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

Ask to obtain free.

Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted. "Beg the point in the discussion"

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"Beg" Quotes from Famous Books

... the sea, Come listen to me, For Alice my wife, The plague of my life, Hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!" ...

— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous

... sorry for it," resumed Josephine, "because I should have asked you to write to him, and beg him to make no stir, but imitate Sieyes and Roger, who will voluntarily retire, and not to join Barras, who is probably at this very moment forced to do so. Bonaparte has told me that if Gohier voluntarily resigns, he will do everything for him." I believe Josephine communicated directly with ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... "I beg your pardon," I stammered, contritely. "I did not mean that, of course. But I cannot think of your singing night after night in such a place—before those men and women. It isn't right; it ...

— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... "Rather than beg his pardon," said he, "I would go and hang myself. I laugh him and his comrades to scorn. If he has tricks of fence, I have a long arm, that will drive my sabre through his bones as easily as his will ...

— The Conscript - A Story of the French war of 1813 • Emile Erckmann

... to say anything just now, my boy," said the old man, at last. He leaned forward, his elbows on the arms of his chair. "Luke has put it to you a little stronger than I should have done. I don't want to beg you or coax you. If you think it's too much of a sacrifice to stand by me—if you want to quit, and can't look at it in any other way, go ahead. I can fight it out alone. I've had a good many lone fights. I'm good for one more. But before you say what you're going to ...

— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

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