Covet vs Beg - What's the difference?
covet | beg | Related terms |
To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
To yearn, have or indulge inordinate desire, notably for another's possession.
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
In transitive terms the difference between covet and beg
is that covet is to long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden) while beg is to assume, in the phrase {{term|beg the question}.In intransitive terms the difference between covet and beg
is that covet is to yearn, have or indulge inordinate desire, notably for another's possession while beg is to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.As a noun beg is
a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.covet
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(en verb)Derived terms
* covetable * coveter * covetingly * covetous * covetousnessExternal links
* *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.