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Asking
Definitions
- 1 That asks; that expresses a question or request.
"It was as when some great gentle dog brings in a limp and bedraggled prize dug from the yard and, laying it at one’s feet, looks up at one with soft asking eyes."
- 1 The act or process of posing a question or making a request. countable, uncountable
"I have an asking for you."
- 2 the verbal act of requesting wordnet
- 3 A request, or petition. countable, rare, singular, uncountable
"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."
- 4 The marriage banns. countable, in-plural, uncountable
- 1 present participle of ask form-of, participle, present
Etymology
From Middle English askinge, askande, from Old English āsciende, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōndī, present participle of Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn (“to ask”), equivalent to ask + -ing.
From Middle English askinge, askande, from Old English āsciende, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōndī, present participle of Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn (“to ask”), equivalent to ask + -ing.
From Middle English asking, askyng, askynge, from Old English āscung (“asking; question; inquiry”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiskungu, equivalent to ask + -ing.
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