Asking

Definitions

1. Ask.
2. The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
   countable, uncountable
3. A request, or petition.
   countable, rare, singular, uncountable
4. The marriage banns.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I have⟳ an asking for you.”

“The large eyes sought his own⟳, as if asking for help⟳, and yet unable to do more than look⟳ their mute asking.”

“Form's silent asking, man's loving speech, the mute proclamation of the creature, are all gates leading into the presence of the Word.”

“If someone asks for love⟳ he will not get⟳ love⟳, because the very asking makes him unlovely, ugly; the very fact of asking becomes the barrier.”

“After many askings, pleadings, and episodes, all leading to nothing, she finally slumped down at the side of a well in a village where she was unknown.”

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