Meaning of Asking | Babel Free

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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