Crave vs Beg - What's the difference?
crave | beg |
To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
* Edmund Gurney
To ask for earnestly.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Mark xv. 43
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 crave and beg
is that crave is to ask for earnestly while beg is to assume, in the phrase {{term|beg the question}.As a noun beg is
a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.crave
English
Verb
(crav)- I know I should diet more, but every afternoon I crave a soda so I have one.
- His path is one that eminently craves weary walking.
- I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end.
- I crave your honour's pardon.
- Joseph went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Derived terms
* cravingAnagrams
* * ----beg
English
(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.
