Plead vs Urge - What's the difference?
plead | urge |
To present an argument, especially in a legal case.
* Bible, Job xvi. 21
To beg, beseech, or implore.
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
* Alexander Pope
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
* Shakespeare
To provoke; to exasperate.
* Shakespeare
To press hard upon; to follow closely.
* Alexander Pope
To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
(obsolete) To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
To press onward or forward.
To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
As verbs the difference between plead and urge
is that plead is to present an argument, especially in a legal case while urge is to press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.As a noun urge is
a strong desire; an itch to do something.plead
English
Verb
- O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
External links
* * *urge
English
Verb
(urg)- through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight
- My brother never / Did urge me in his act; I did inquire it.
- Urge not my father's anger.
- Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
- to urge''' an argument; to '''urge the necessity of a case
- to urge an ore with intense heat
