Begged vs Entreated - What's the difference?
begged | entreated |
(beg)
to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
to assume, in the phrase (beg the question)
(proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase (beg the question)
(legal, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
* Harrington
(entreat)
* 2006 , Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books , Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0-7425-5094-0, page 236:
(obsolete) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Jer. xv. 11
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
* Shakespeare
* Edgar Allan Poe
To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
* Rogers
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
* 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
(obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
* Hakewill
* Bible, 1 Mac. x. 47
(obsolete) To make an earnest petition or request.
* Knolles
As verbs the difference between begged and entreated
is that begged is (beg) while entreated is (entreat).begged
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Verb
(head)beg
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(wikipedia beg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.Verb
(begg)- He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
- I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
- He begged her to go to the prom with him .
- I do beg your good will in this case.
- [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
- But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake'
- Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeAntonyms
* (raise a question)Derived terms
* beg the question * go begging * beg to differSee also
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).Etymology 3
entreated
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Verb
(head)entreat
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Noun
(en noun)- In the Muslim world, the most compelling and decisive books are those full of confessions written on the flesh of victims, and the most earnest prayers are the entreats for mercy screamed in pain and anguish at the tormentors and flesh and thought.
Verb
(en verb)- Fairly let her be entreated .
- I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.
- I do entreat your patience.
- some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
- It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat .
- “But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”
- One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true
- pleasures to entreat
- of which I shall have further occasion to entreat
- Alexander was first that entreated of true peace with them.
- The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.