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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

... an earl I cant say answered our hero but may I beg you to read this letter my Lord. He produced Bernards note from his coat tails. The Earl of Clincham took it in his long fingers. This ...

— The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan • Daisy Ashford

... kindly and solemnly, "be always loyal in word and deed, as I know you are in heart, to your grandparents. You are everything to them. I know of no nobler work than you have been doing all winter. I beg your pardon if I have been hard on you; but it hurt me dreadfully to see that doubtful look on your face. I did not mean ...

— David Fleming's Forgiveness • Margaret Murray Robertson

... connection I beg to draw your attention to the fact that Mr. Smith did not confine his work of agitation, public lecturing, etc., to the County of Brome, or that section of the country in which the majority of the population had voted in favor of the prohibition of liquor, ...

— The Story of a Dark Plot - or Tyranny on the Frontier • A.L.O. C. and W.W. Smith

... could not walk together on the street, or meet publicly anywhere and converse, without unkind remark. As a white man, this might not mean a great deal to you; as a woman, shut out already by my color from much that is desirable, my good name remains my most valuable possession. I beg of you to let me alone. The best possible proof you can give me of your good wishes is to relinquish any desire or attempt to see me. I shall have finished my work here in a few days. I have other troubles, of which you know ...

— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt

... was not extinct; she would often shed copious tears; but at such a time she seemed to be deaf to all sounds; in vain would they try to make her understand that her father was not dead, as she appeared to believe. With a gesture of entreaty she would beg them to stop, not the noise (for that did not seem to strike her ear), but the bustle that was going on around her; then, hiding her face in her hands, lying back in her arm-chair and bringing her knees ...

— Mauprat • George Sand

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