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beseche

beseche is the obsolete spelling of beseech.

Meaning of beseech

Verb

beseech (third-person singular simple present beseeches, present participle beseeching, simple past and past participle beseeched or besought)

  1. (formal, transitive) To beg or implore something of (a person).
    • Moost noble crysten Quene I byseche yow as ye haue ben euer my specyal good lady and I at al tymes your true poure knyghte vnto my power and as I neuer fayled yow in ryghte nor in wrong sythen the fyrst day kynge Arthur made me knyghte that ye wylle praye for my soule yf that I here be...[1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter iii, leaf 401r
  2. (formal, transitive) To beg or request for (something).
    • [T]he tickets had all been given out, begged, besought long ago.1990, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The Brothers Karamazov, San Francisco, North Point Press, →ISBN, page 657

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Questions about beseche

What is beseche the obsolete spelling of?
Beseche is the obsolete spelling of beseech.

Words near beseche in the dictionary

  1. bescumbers
  2. beseat
  3. beseated
  4. beseating
  5. beseats
  6. beseche
  7. Besecker
  8. Beseckers
  9. besee
  10. beseech
  11. beseeched

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