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Beg

verb

(past & past part. begged; pres. part. begging)

Call upon in supplication; entreat. Synonyms: implore, pray.

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently. Synonyms: solicit, tap. "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"

Ask to obtain free.

Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted. "Beg the point in the discussion"

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... respectfully grateful for the message," answered Gilbert, rather coldly, "and I beg you, sir, to accept my appreciation of the pains you have taken to ...

— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford

... one who has attentively read my 'Origin of Species' this Introduction will be superfluous. As I stated that work that I should soon publish the facts on which the conclusions given in it were founded, I here beg permission to remark that the great delay in publishing this first work has ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin

... drawing himself up, "if you won't enter into explanations you won't; and I'm not the man to beg and pray—not to any woman, and you know that! If you don't want to marry me I can't oblige you to, ...

— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner

... beg your pardon; but it's not that; I am really out of order. I daresay my unwillingness to encounter any displeasure from my father is the consequence of my indisposition; but I'll answer for it, it is not the cause ...

— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... exhalations, or to dwell upon the virtues of fresh air, you might feel inclined to interrupt me by saying, "Oh, we know all about that! If you have anything practical to advance, come to the point." Gentlemen, I beg your pardon, but I must say that the great fact concerning ventilation, as yet, is that its strongest advocates are not conscious of one-half the seriousness of the subject; and the second fact is that the supposed means of ventilation prescribed by ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various

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