Ansinnen
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[edit]Ansinnen n (strong, genitive Ansinnens, plural Ansinnen)
- (higher register) request; imposition
- Synonym: Zumutung
- 1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, chapter 4, in Buddenbrooks […] [1], Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, part 8, page 449:
- Mit aller Entschiedenheit, die er seiner Stimme zu geben vermocht, hatte er das Ansinnen zurückgewiesen; […]
- He had refused with all the decisiveness he could put into his voice, to think of the proposition; […]