Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
begging the question; logically circular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The act of begging the question.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From begging the question. First attested in the nineteenth century.
