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Beg vs. Plead

Beg and Plead Definitions

Beg

To ask (someone) for something in an urgent or humble manner
Begged me for help.
Begged me to give him the phone number.

Plead

To appeal earnestly; beg
Plead for more time.

Beg

To ask for (something) in an urgent or humble manner
Beg someone's forgiveness.
Beg a favor.

Plead

To offer reasons for or against something; argue earnestly
Plead against a bill.

Beg

To ask for (food or money, for instance) as a beggar.

Plead

To provide an argument or appeal
Your youth pleads for you in this instance.
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Beg

To ask (permission) to do something
Begged leave to attend the ceremony.

Plead

(Law) To respond to a criminal charge
Plead guilty.

Beg

To evade; dodge
A speech that begged the real issues.

Plead

To assert as defense, vindication, or excuse; claim as a plea
Plead illness as the reason for his absence.

Beg

To take for granted without proof
Beg the point in a dispute.

Plead

To specify (a cause of action or defense)
Plead a First Amendment claim.
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Beg

To ask for something, especially money or food from strangers, in an urgent or humble manner.

Plead

To set forth in a pleading
Plead that plaintiff suffered damages as a result of the breach of contract.

Beg

To live as a beggar.

Plead

To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
The defendant has decided to plead not guilty.

Beg

To make an urgent or humble plea
Beg for mercy.

Plead

(intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
He pleaded with me not to leave the house.
He was pleading for mercy.
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Beg

(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
He begged on the street corner from passers-by.

Plead

(transitive) To offer by way of excuse.
Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.
It is no defence to plead that you were only obeying orders.

Beg

(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.
He begged her to go to the prom with him.

Plead

(transitive) To discuss by arguments.

Beg

(transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.

Plead

To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!

Beg

(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

Plead

To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea.

Beg

In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
Set aside

Plead

To contend; to struggle.

Beg

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

Plead

To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury.
Every man should plead his own matter.

Beg

The act of begging; an imploring request.

Plead

To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty.

Beg

A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

Plead

To allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors.
I will neither plead my age nor sickness, in excuse of faults.

Beg

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

Plead

Appeal or request earnestly;
I pleaded with him to stop

Beg

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
I do beg your good will in this case.
[Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.

Plead

Offer as an excuse or plea;
She was pleading insanity

Beg

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Plead

Enter a plea, as in courts of law;
She pleaded not guilty

Beg

To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

Plead

Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts

Beg

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

Beg

To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.
Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.

Beg

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed.

Beg

Call upon in supplication; entreat;
I beg you to stop!

Beg

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;
Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce
My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities

Beg

Ask to obtain free;
Beg money and food

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