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Definition of Cry for
1. Verb. Need badly or desperately. "This question cries out for an answer"
Generic synonyms: Ask, Call For, Demand, Involve, Necessitate, Need, Postulate, Require, Take
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cry For
Literary usage of Cry for
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All & None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1896)
"... THE cry for HELP The following day Zarathustra sat again on his stone before
the cave, while the animals strayed outside in the world in order to bring ..."
2. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"He was therefore ready The cry for to hearken to the cry, which soon arose from
Dane and Eng- lishman alike, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Hence, the cry for "science without presuppositions" is doubly illogical, unless
by presupposition is meant an hypothesis that can be proved to be false or ..."
4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"O. The Veneti, n Resident speaks of the discontent as raised solely by the burden
of taxation, and describes the cry for a Parliament as universal. ..."
5. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"Grant had been by no means deaf to the cry for Civil Service Reform. He was, in
fact, the first President to show any interest in tiie theory. ..."
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