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Beseech   /bisˈitʃ/   Listen
verb
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



... pardon for such freedom, you are right in this; that it being done in your absence, you could not be charged with that part of the crime. But I beseech you, matter not yourself that you are not therefore under an obligation to do your uttermost now to put an end to it. How can you think, but that, let the time past lie on whom it will, all the guilt for the future will lie entirely ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe

... our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost—to Thee, the wise, good, true, righteous, compassionate, pure, gracious God, we render thanks that Thou hast hitherto upheld the Church in these lands, and graciously afforded it protection and care, and we earnestly beseech Thee evermore to gather among us an inheritance for Thy Son, which may ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Volume I - Basil to Calvin • Various

... have evaded my inquiries. Who is she? I beseech you, sister, be serious. There is a time for ...
— The Stranger - A Drama, in Five Acts • August von Kotzebue

... bowed low Before thee, not a stranger, though estranged. A suppliant I, and come to pray thine aid. Thrust forth from house and home, by all men shunned, I fly to thee, my guest-friend, and beseech In confidence the shelter of ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... merciful God! God of the armies! We beseech Thee in humility for Thy almighty aid for our German Fatherland. Bless the entire German war force, lead us to victory, and give us grace that we may show ourselves to be Christians toward our enemies as well. Let us soon arrive at the peace which will everlastingly ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various


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