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beseeching

beseeching is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

beseeching (plural beseechings)

  1. A heartfelt plea.
    • The ability to blithely make wrong turns without serious directional consequences is, of course, one of the hallmarks of PNDs — and a feature that allows me to ignore my wife’s beseechings and merrily proceed on my way without ever stopping to ask for directions.2009 September 20, John R. Quain, “Getting Lost With a Cellphone”, in New York Times

Forms of beseeching

pluralbeseechings

Words formed from beseeching

Questions about beseeching

What does beseeching mean?
Beseeching means a heartfelt plea.
What is beseeching the present participle and gerund of?
Beseeching is the present participle and gerund of beseech.
What part of speech is beseeching?
Beseeching is a noun.
What is the plural of beseeching?
The plural of beseeching is beseechings.

Words near beseeching in the dictionary

  1. beseech
  2. beseeched
  3. beseecher
  4. beseechers
  5. beseeches
  6. beseeching
  7. beseechingly
  8. beseechingness
  9. beseechings
  10. beseechment
  11. beseechments

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