flagitation
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
flagitation (usually uncountable, plural flagitations)
- (obsolete) begging; passionate asking
- 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia:
- By French industry and flagitation, the Swedish Army was generally kept-up to about 20,000[.]
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References edit
- “flagitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.