Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of beseeching.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly.
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- noun The act of
beseeching ;earnest entreaty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aerill throws up his hands and quickly turns the gesture into one of beseechment.
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That Paulson should have gone down on one knee to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as if prayer and beseechment might get the job done, strikes me as further evidence that sheer superstition and incantation have played their part in all this.
America the Banana Republic Hitchens, Christopher 2008
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Her hands were lifted in pleading beseechment, while her wailing voice sobbed with questions.
The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985
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Her hands were lifted in pleading beseechment, while her wailing voice sobbed with questions.
The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985
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His voice aspired to sternness and crumbled into beseechment.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
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Mary! "he cried in passionate beseechment," I never meant to win your love to betray it.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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The Princess Zairoff, to whom men's admiration was as familiar as the air of Heaven, who possessed rank and wealth and loveliness such as dower few women, had yet never granted to one human being a sign of tenderness, or unveiled, so to speak, the deep strange depths of her strange nature, to any beseechment.
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They would reproduce the spectacle of silence amid wrong; a silence with not a word of protest, or vindication, or beseechment; a silence that was louder than the thunder that broke from the heavens that day when at 12 o'clock at noon was as dark as 12 o'clock at night.
T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Mrs. T. de Witt Talmage 1867
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The eyes were full of beseechment, and irresistibly lovely.
The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866
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"Be assured, madam," he said respectfully, "that Mr Lane shall fare better for the beseechment of so good a daughter, and that I will do mine utmost to have him gently handled."
The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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