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Requesting vs Wishing - What's the difference?

requesting | wishing |

As verbs the difference between requesting and wishing

is that requesting is while wishing is .

As a noun wishing is

the act of making a wish.

requesting

English

Verb

(head)

    • wishing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a wish.
  • * 1852 , Chambers's Papers for the People (volumes 9-10, page 167)
    • Discourse there was none; only exclamations and interjections, and wishings , wishings, wishings that Bessy were but his own for ever — his dear, dear little wife, as assuredly one day she should be!