Beseech

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  • transitive verb. To address an earnest or urgent request to; implore: synonym: beg.
  • transitive verb. To request earnestly; beg for.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To entreat; supplicate; implore; ask or pray with urgency: followed by a personal object.
  • To beg eagerly for; solicit: followed by the thing solicited.
  • Synonyms Ask, Request, Beg, etc. (see ask), plead for or with, petition, conjure, appeal to.
  • noun. A request: as, “such submiss beseeches,”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Solicitation; supplication.
  • transitive verb. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To beg or implore.
  • noun. A request.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. ask for or request earnestly
  • Word Usage
    "Though the apostles went out backed with the authority of the Son of God himself, yet their instructions were, when they came into a house, not to command it, but to salute it; for love's sake rather to beseech, is the evangelical way, Philemon 8, 9."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plead  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beach  Peach  Teach  beach  beech  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adjure  appeal  appeal to  ask  beg  
    variant
    besought  
    verb-form