beseech

Speech parts

1. beseech - Noun

2. beseech - Verb

Meaning

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

Solicitation; supplication.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

entreat press bid solicit conjure implore adjure supplicate sue approach demand apply request seek appeal
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Antonyms

provide give daunt avoid offer block
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Hypernyms

plead

Phrases with the word

to beseech

Derivatives

besought beseeching

Anagrams

Beeches beseche

Examples

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us. Henry Ward Beecher

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. Ben Lindsey

Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you.... Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice. Lois McMaster Bujold

The past is dead; let it bury its dead. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling. Make your place in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished – a reunited country. Jefferson Davis

Take care how you beseech the Gods for a gift, for they will give it to you. Darkovan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

beseche Besecker besee beseecher beseeching beseeching mood