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BEGGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Synonyms:
beggary; begging; mendicancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("begging" is a kind of...):
solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb beg
Context examples:
He was begging, pleading, imploring for his comrade's life.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He went over to her and snuggled his head in her lap, nudging her arm with his nose—an old trick of his when begging for favors.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
And when she kept on begging, she said at last, to get rid of her, I will throw this dishful of peas into the ash-heap, and if in two hours’ time you have picked them all out, you shall go to the feast too.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Besides the Eltons, it must be the Westons and Mr. Knightley; so far it was all of course—and it was hardly less inevitable that poor little Harriet must be asked to make the eighth:—but this invitation was not given with equal satisfaction, and on many accounts Emma was particularly pleased by Harriet's begging to be allowed to decline it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Adieu! I take up my pen again to do what I have just told you I would not; but circumstances are such that I cannot help earnestly begging you all to come here as soon as possible.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Everywhere it goes begging.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
To her mother's inquiries she answered that she was quite well, and Jo's she silenced by begging to be let alone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Here, the poor fool has been begging and praying about handing over some of her money—because she has got too much of it. A simpleton!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Martin wrote immediately, begging the editor to cease publishing the lyrics and to return them to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
