Word Meanings - BEG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEG)

• Beseech
• Entreat
• pray
• solicit
• ask
• implore
• crave
• request
• supplicate
• petition
• beg
• Crave
• Intreat
• beseech
• cry
• Implore
• obsecrate
• importune
• urge
• Request
• Ask
• desire
• entreat
• demand
• Solicit

Related words: (words related to BEG)

• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• OBSECRATE
  To beseech; to supplicate; to implore. . Cockerman. (more info) on religious grounds; ob + sacrare to declare as sacred,
• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• PETITIONARILY
  By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• SOLICITRESS
  A woman who solicits.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• IMPLORER
  One who implores.
• PETITIONEE
  A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
• SOLICITATE
  Solicitous. Eden.
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• SOLICITOUS
  Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful. "Solicitous of my reputation." Dryden. "He was solicitous for his advice." Calerendon. Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be
• BESEECHING
  Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
• IMPLORE
  To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought. Imploring all the
• PETITION
  1. A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. A house of
• REDEMAND
  To demand back; to demand again.