begging
21Begging — The request for money or food to be given in a charitable spirit; an important part of a culture in which charity was deemed an essential quality. It was far from demeaning; indeed the Franciscan friars had literally to beg for a living …
22begging — Synonyms and related words: adjuratory, appealing, beggary, beseeching, bumming, cadging, entreating, imploring, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mooching, panhandling, petitionary, pleading, prayerful, precative, precatory, scrounging,… …
23begging — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deSirous, anxious, in need, imploring, supplicating …
24begging — n. panhandling, publicly asking for handouts beg v. request, plead; ask for charity …
25begging — noun a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) • Syn: ↑beggary, ↑mendicancy • Derivationally related forms: ↑mendicant (for: ↑mendicancy), ↑beg ( …
26Begging for Love — ] ee also*Cinema of Japan *List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language FilmReferencesExternal links*imdb title|id=0168450|title=Ai o Kōhito …
27begging the question — The procedure of assuming what is at issue in an argument. Although the charge is commonly made, there is no logical definition of those kinds of argument that beg the question. In the widest sense, any valid argument might be thought to beg the… …
28begging bowl — beg|ging bowl [ begıŋ ,boul ] noun count a bowl carried by someone who is asking for food or money a. a request for money made by a country or an organization …
29begging for forgiveness — asking for a pardon, asking for forgiveness …
30begging letter — noun a letter asking for a gift or donation …
