beg vs demand

beg

noun
  • The act of begging; an imploring request. 

  • A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey. 

verb
  • In the phrase beg the question: to assume. 

  • To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. 

  • To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. 

  • To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction. 

  • In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question). 

demand

noun
  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • An order. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A requirement. 

  • More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval. 

verb
  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

How often have the words beg and demand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )