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  • noun Plural form of beseecher.

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Examples

  • Yet the economy has been far more resilient than either the Fed or its Wall Street beseechers expected, and we may still avoid a single negative quarter for gross domestic product this year.

    Oil and the Fed 2008

  • But for Ladies and women to weepe and shed teares at euery little greefe it is nothing vncomely, but rather a signe of much good nature & meekness of minde, a most decent propertie for that sexe, and therefore they be for the more part more deuout and charitable, and greater geuers of almes than men, and zealous relieuers of prisoners, and beseechers of pardons, and such like parts of commiseration.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • For a moment Mr. World ceased his struggling and looked at his two pitiable beseechers.

    Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory

  • If those heroes, without permitting the beseechers to incur the dangers of battle, keep them in the rear by themselves facing those dangers and defend them at that time of fear, great becomes their merit.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • "Your beseechers," they said, "have many city debtors, for many of them which have taken much beer into their houses suddenly goeth to the sanctuary, some keep their houses -- some purchase the king's protection, and some, when they die, be reckoned poor, and of no value, and many of your said beseechers be for the most part against such debtors remediless and suffer great losses."

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill; Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.'

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • But for Ladies and women to weepe and shed teares at euery little greefe, it is nothing vncomely, but rather a signe of much good nature & meeknes of minde, a most decent propertie for that sexe; and therefore they be for the more part more deuout and charitable, and greater geuers of almes than men, and zealous relieuers of prisoners, and beseechers of pardons, and such like parts of commiseration.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • This can crush the spirits of the more emotionally frail beseechers, who seem to think I can just snap my fingers and make gnomes appear before their eyes.

    Hooting Yard 2009

  • Ironically, many of those who later clamored for Roosevelt's head were the first beseechers for federal intervention ... when it was their profit and loss on the line, as Badger notes: "In time, Texas would be a hotbed of business anti-New Deal sentiment, but Texans 'oil, cotton, and cattle were in desperate straits in 1933, and Washington seemed to provide the only solutions on offer."

    Daily Kos 2009

  • Praise be to Allah, Who breaks everything belonging to the oppressors; puts an end to the tyrants; watches over the fugitives; brings assistance to those who cry out for help; meets and clears up the demands of the needy beseechers; supports the faithful.

    [Help] Most Recent Posts menthol6 2009

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