beseeched
/bɪˈsiːt͡ʃt/
beseeched is the simple past and past participle of beseech.
Meaning of beseech
Verb
beseech (third-person singular simple present beseeches, present participle beseeching, simple past and past participle beseeched or besought)
- 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
- 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
Words that rhyme with beseeched
Questions about beseeched
- What is beseeched the simple past and past participle of?
- Beseeched is the simple past and past participle of beseech.
- How do you pronounce beseeched?
- Beseeched is pronounced /bɪˈsiːt͡ʃt/.
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