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beseech

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ/

Definition of beseech

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (formal, transitive)To beg or implore something of (a person).
    “[W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]”
    “I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior.”
    “after what manner, I beseech you, must the mind proceed in this operation?”
    “She besought him, for his Soul's sake to speak the truth.”
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verb

  1. (formal, transitive)To beg or implore something of (a person).
    “[W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]”
    “I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior.”
    “after what manner, I beseech you, must the mind proceed in this operation?”
    “She besought him, for his Soul's sake to speak the truth.”
  2. (formal, transitive)To beg or request for (something).
    “[T]he tickets had all been given out, begged, besought long ago.”

noun

  1. (archaic, transitive)A request.
    “Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]”

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Etymology

From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland…

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From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besäike (“to visit”), Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”), German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”), Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”). By surface analysis, be- + seech.

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