asking

• COUNT in NET: 45 in 45 verses (in OT : 20 in 20 verses) (in NT : 25 in 25 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

asking, n. 

•  The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.  Longfellow.  [1913 Webster]
•  The publishing of banns.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

asking

Request

N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.