beseech
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
beseech (beseeches, present participle beseeching; past and past participle beseeched)
- to beg or implore (a person)
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London, Oxford University Press, 1973, § 25:
- after what manner, I beseech you, must the mind proceed in this operation?
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 61:
- She besought him, for his Soul's sake to speak the truth.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 31
- Panting a little in his haste, he told her how miserable he was; he besought her to have mercy on him; he promised, if she would forgive him, to do everything she wanted.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London, Oxford University Press, 1973, § 25:
- to request or beg for
- 1990, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators), Fyodor Dostoevsky (author), The Brothers Karamazov, San Francisco, North Point Press, ISBN 0-86547-422-2, page 657:
- […] the tickets had all been given out, begged, besought long ago.
- 1990, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators), Fyodor Dostoevsky (author), The Brothers Karamazov, San Francisco, North Point Press, ISBN 0-86547-422-2, page 657:
- French: prier, implorer, supplier
- German: anflehen, ersuchen, bitten
- Italian: supplicare, implorare
- Portuguese: rogar, implorar
- Russian: умоля́ть
- Spanish: rogar, implorar, suplicar
beseech (plural beseeches)
- (archaic) A request.
- 1839, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Darley, The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Volume 1:
- Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]
- 1839, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Darley, The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Volume 1:
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