Definitions
- Asking someone earnestly or pleading with them to do something. - Making a request or appeal for help or assistance. - Urging someone to take a particular course of action.
- Asking someone for something, especially in a desperate or urgent manner. - Requesting something as a favor or charity. - Pleading for mercy or forgiveness.
List of Similarities
- 1Both involve making a request or appeal to someone.
- 2Both can be used to ask for help or assistance.
- 3Both imply a sense of urgency or desperation.
- 4Both can be used to plead with someone to take a particular course of action.
- 5Both are polite ways of asking for something.
What is the difference?
- 1Intensity: Begging is more intense and desperate than intreating.
- 2Formality: Intreating is more formal and polite than begging.
- 3Connotation: Begging can have negative connotations of weakness or humiliation, while intreating is more neutral.
- 4Usage: Intreating is less common and more archaic than begging.
- 5Purpose: Intreating is often used to persuade someone to do something, while begging is often used to ask for something as a favor or charity.
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Remember this!
Intreat and beg are synonyms that both involve making a request or appeal to someone. However, intreat is a more formal and polite way of asking for something, while beg is more intense and desperate. Intreat is also less common and more archaic than beg.
