flagitation

English

Etymology

Latin flagitatio.

Noun

flagitation (usually uncountable, plural flagitations)

1. (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[.]

Related terms

• flagitate

References

• “flagitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.