Begging vs Pleading - What's the difference?
begging | pleading |
The act of one who begs.
* 1832 , Charles Coleman, The Mythologie of the Hindus: With Plates
The act of making a plea.
* (Thomas Hardy)
(legal) A document filed in a lawsuit, particularly a document initiating litigation or responding to the initiation of litigation.
That pleads.
* 1955 , , Ann Lindsay, Earth , p. 251:
* 1999 , (Simone de Beauvoir), The Mandarins , p. 599:
* 1993 , (Charles Haddon Spurgeon), Psalms , p. 225:
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is that begging is the act of one who begs while pleading is the act of making a plea.As an adjective pleading is
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English
(wikipedia begging)Verb
(head)Derived terms
* go begging * begging the questionNoun
(en noun)- The Brahmans were very annoying in their beggings for money
pleading
English
Noun
(en noun)- But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
- With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
- Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}