Pleading vs Beg - What's the difference?
pleading | beg |
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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, title= 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
As nouns the difference between pleading and beg
is that pleading is the act of making a plea while beg is .As a verb pleading
is .As an adjective pleading
is that pleads.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.}}
Derived terms
* pleadinglyAnagrams
*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.
