Sentence:  One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but <WSD>ask</WSD> and receive , and women as submissive and yielding , that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned , and we condemn the woman as a coquette . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make a request or demand for something to somebody