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flagitate

/ˈflæd͡ʒɪteɪt/

flagitate verb: to importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.

Verb

flagitate (third-person singular simple present flagitates, present participle flagitating, simple past and past participle flagitated)

  1. (archaic) To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
    • Holy Virgin stood in the main Convent of Glatz, in rather a threadbare condition, when the Prussians first approached; the Jesuits, and ardently Orthodox of both sexes, flagitating Heaven and her with their prayers, that she would vouchsafe to keep the Prussians out.1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

flagitate meaning in Bengali

flagitate in Bengali

পিড়াপিড়ি করা, উগ্রভাবে, আবেগের সাথে দাবি করা

Forms of flagitate

third-person singular presentflagitates
present participleflagitating
past participleflagitated
pastflagitated

Origin of flagitate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin flāgitātus, perfect passive participle of flāgitō (“to demand, ask urgingly”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about flagitate

What does flagitate mean?
Flagitate means to importune; to demand fiercely or with passion.
What is flagitate in Bengali?
Flagitate in Bengali is পিড়াপিড়ি করা, উগ্রভাবে, আবেগের সাথে দাবি করা. See Flagitate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is flagitate?
Flagitate is a verb.
How do you pronounce flagitate?
Flagitate is pronounced /ˈflæd͡ʒɪteɪt/.
What is the past tense of flagitate?
The past tense of flagitate is flagitated.

Words near flagitate in the dictionary

  1. Flaggy Creek
  2. flaghoist
  3. flaghoists
  4. flaghopper
  5. flaghoppers
  6. flagitate
  7. flagitated
  8. flagitates
  9. flagitating
  10. flagitation
  11. flagitations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flagitate (page history and authors); flagitate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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