beseech

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Life, life, I beseech--I beseech--beseech you Back a moment!"

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  1. transitive verb To address an earnest or urgent request to; implore: beseech them for help.
  2. transitive verb To request earnestly; beg for: beseech help. See Synonyms at beg.

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  • Each mother gives her charms unto her sons; do thou Take mine; but I beseech, go not forth anywhere Just for one little hour, mine eyes to set On my friend Thomas, whom I'm bound to meet Thy friend, indeed! —  Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
  • It is not me whom you must beseech, but the Mother who feeds us all. —  Blind Man's Lantern
  • Life, life, I beseech--I beseech--beseech you Back a moment!" —  The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
  • But remember that we do not beseech, we demand! —  The Idiot
  • We do not beseech, we demand With these last excited words, Lebedeff's nephew was silent We demand, we demand, we demand, we do not beseech," spluttered Burdovsky, red as a lobster The speech of Lebedeff's nephew caused a certain stir among the company; murmurs arose, though with the exception of Lebedeff, who was still very much excited, everyone was careful not to interfere in the matter. —  The Idiot
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English bisechen, from Old English besēcan : be-, be- + sēcan, to seek; see seek.

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  1. Early modern English (northern) also beseek, from Middle English besechen, bisechen, also beseken (not in Anglo-Saxon) (= OFries. bisēka = Dutch bezoeken = Old High German bisuochan. Middle High German besuochen, German besuchen = Swedish besöka = Dau. besöge, visit, go to see), from be- + seken, seek: see be- and seek.
  2. from beseech, v.
 

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