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Beseech v. t. (past & past part. besought; pres. part. beseeching)

1.

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. "I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts." "But Eve... besought his peace."

Synonyms: To beg; to crave. To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. These words agree in marking that sense of want which leads men to beg some favor. To solicit is to make a request, with some degree of earnestness and repetition, of one whom we address as a superior. To entreat implies greater urgency, usually enforced by adducing reasons or arguments. To beseech is still stronger, and belongs rather to the language of poetry and imagination. To implore denotes increased fervor of entreaty, as addressed either to equals or superiors. To supplicate expresses the extreme of entreaty, and usually implies a state of deep humiliation. Thus, a captive supplicates a conqueror to spare his life. Men solicit by virtue of their interest with another; they entreat in the use of reasoning and strong representations; they beseech with importunate earnestness; they implore from a sense of overwhelming distress; they supplicate with a feeling of the most absolute inferiority and dependence.

noun

Beseech n. Solicitation; supplication. (Obs. or Poetic)

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"Beseech" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Then I beseech you, do not wait," said the eager Almos, shoving his foot towards the doctor; "great is the English doctor; be ...

— The Jungle Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis

... train's shrill whistle call, I saw an earnest look beseech, And rather by that look than speech My neighbor ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... learned upon what terms they might have Balder again with them, they sent heralds all over the world to beseech every thing to mourn for him. And men and beasts, and creeping things, and birds and fishes, and trees and stones, and air and water,—all things, living and lifeless, joined in weeping for the ...

— The Story of Siegfried • James Baldwin

... lower warld o' ours. I hae dune a gude deed by pure Tammy Pennyquick, and here's a' Pairth ringing wi the report o' it; and Sawmuel Bishopriggs sae weel known that ony stranger has only to ask, and find him. Understand, I beseech ye, that it's no hand o' mine that pets this new feather in my cap. As a gude Calvinist, my saul's clear o' the smallest figment o' belief in Warks. When I look at my ain celeebrity I joost ask, as the Psawmist asked before me, 'Why do the heathen rage, ...

— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins

... a prudent man and true: "Whatever you deem right and just the Cid desires of you. He will ask little since his goods are left in a safe place. But needy men on all sides beseech the Cid for grace. For six hundred marks of money, the Cid ...

— The Lay of the Cid • R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon

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