Solicit vs Urge - What's the difference?
solicit | urge |
To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
* Alexander Pope
To woo; to court.
To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
* Milton
* Locke
To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
To make a petition.
(archaic) To disturb or trouble; to harass.
To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
* Ford
(obsolete, rare) To disturb; to disquiet.
* Chapman
* Dryden
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 a verb solicit
is to persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.As a noun urge is
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English
Verb
(en verb)- to solicit alms, or a favour
- I view my crime, but kindle at the view, / Repent old pleasures, and solicit new.
- Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
- That fruit solicited her longing eye.
- Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind.
- If you want to lose your virginity, you should try to solicit some fine looking women.
- My girlfriend tried to solicit me for sex, but I was tired.
- Should / My brother henceforth study to forget / The vow that he hath made thee, I would ever / Solicit thy deserts.
- Hath any ill solicited thine ears?
- But anxious fears solicit my weak breast.
Synonyms
* request * plead * appeal * thig * supplicateExternal links
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*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
