noun
definition
The act of one who begs.
Examples of begging in a Sentence
She kept begging to go away.
They ought to be begging you.
Is it necessary to go from door to door begging your food?
The jus episcopale which Luther afterwards claimed for the secular authorities had been practically exercised in Saxony and Brandenburg; cities and districts had framed police regulations which set aside ecclesiastical decrees about holidays and begging; the supervision of charity was passing from the hands of the church into those of laymen; and religious confraternities which did not take their guidance from the clergy were increasing.
An armistice was arranged; the besieged begging for a remission from the pope, and also asking Henry to request the emperor to move the pope to refuse.
In 1872 "by walking, begging rides both in wagons, and in the cars" he travelled 500 m.
For seven years there was no communication between the two branches of the family, till at last, when Hypatius had become a Christian, Salvian wrote him a most touching letter in his own name, his wife's, and that of his little daughter Auspiciola, begging for the renewal of the old affection (Ep. iv.).
With this object he made a great begging expedition to America in 1863, from which he returned with £r r,000.
He must eat only the morsels he gets by begging; must dress in such rags as he can pick up; must sleep under trees.
The litigation that ensued dragged on for several years, and forced upon Leonardo frequent visits to Florence and interruptions of his work at Milan, in spite of pressing letters to the authorities of the republic from Charles d'Amboise, from the French king himself, and from others of his powerful friends and patrons, begging that the proceedings might be accelerated.
St Francis did not intend that begging and alms should be the normal means of sustenance for his friars; on the contrary, he intended them to live by the work of their hands, and only to have recourse to begging when they could not earn their livelihood by work.
But as the friars soon came nearly all to be priests devoted to spiritual ministrations, and the communities grew larger, it became increasingly difficult for them to support themselves by personal work; and so the begging came to play a greater role than had been contemplated by St Francis.
It soon reached his father's ears that his son was walking through the streets begging.
Mr Schreiner, on the 3rd of August, telegraphed to Mr Fischer begging the Transvaal to welcome Mr Chamberlain's proposal.
The general criticism of the syllogism as a means of discovering truth is that it is a petitio principii, or begging of the question.
She was blamed for her friendship with the comtesse de Polignac, who loved her only as the dispenser of titles and positions; and when weary of this persistent begging for rewards, she was taxed with her preference for foreigners who asked nothing.
Then a cheerful soldier ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry.
Jessi wasn't about to cave to his appetite, but Toni was almost begging.
Not that she should do the begging.
He now lived by begging.
The society also maintained Beggar Colonies for the compulsory detention of persons committing the offence of begging.
Police use of psychic tips was not unheard of, usually prompted by the begging of a frantic next of kin and not belief by the authorities in the reliability of the method.
I was sixteen and pregnant and my mother tossed me out of the house and then I was a street smart seventeen year old mother without a pot to piss in and no options to get one then if I screw this guy I can maybe get a million dollars and feed my baby and not listen to gun shots outside my door and I been standing here at the window a long, long time, begging for a ticket to fly out of here and no one has handed me anything but shit and now this guy is holding this first class pass and all I have to do is reach out and grab it but I know I might hate myself for tacking it because this ticket clerk is kind of a jerk sometimes but an okay guy most of the time and he's nice to me and he listens to me, and he loves me and I know if I take it and fly it will kill him.
Together we might peruse some of the more notable entries submitted to that inane contest in case a gem lays molding in the rubble heap of stupid begging missives from fantasying idiots.
Standish started begging her shortly after she confessed to being a vampire.
Carruthers gave evidence of finding the man begging alms at various shops in Church Street at noon on the previous day.
Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.
Most of the African countries doing the rounds with begging bowls are not necessarily poor at all.
Letters continue to arrive begging the question ' Why didn't I know of the Unitarians and National Unitarian fellowship long ago?
But the King fell ill and died quickly, begging forgiveness for his sins.
As I stood there I was approached by a white hippy begging for money.
Sitting outside bamboo huts on the side of the track were human beings begging even from us, or at least trying to.
Lo and behold BA came begging with a generous offer of compensation.
She became an outcast, going from house to house begging for whatever food they could give her.
Why is charity, public or private, impotent to eliminate social evils like vagrancy, begging, prostitution?
Note the biblical scholar begging the question, yet again, in respect of the " period of the Judges.
I took a thousand sequins, begging him not to tell my affairs to anyone.
London was overcrowded with wounded soldiers begging in the streets.
Children begging, some of them little more than toddlers trying to sell sweets on the corner of a street.
No begging sound emerged My pride was intact Even if my precious world had fallen a p a r tact Even if my precious world had fallen a p a r t.
As Trimus and the others walked to the guard house, small street urchins ran along beside and behind begging for tales not coins.
We who live in the West should not, of course, adopt Asian theology wholesale; that would be the begging approach.
In 815 Sardinia submitted to Louis the Pious, begging for his protection; 5 but the Saracens were not entirely driven out, and about A.D.
He shall then "live without a fire, without a house, without pleasures, without protection; remaining silent and uttering speech only on the occasion of the daily recitation of the Veda; begging so much food only in the village as will sustain his life, he shall wander about, neither caring for this world nor for heaven.
She wrote that if he did not come and take matters in hand, their whole property would be sold by auction and they would all have to go begging.
What I want is that our children should not have to go begging.
No begging sound emerged My pride was intact Even if my precious world had fallen a p a r t.
One petitioner even kneeled down in front of the Freeholders begging them to relent on the issue.
The necessity to earn more than could be put together by begging, slowly transformed them from itinerant musicians into itinerant ice-cream salesmen.
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