besought

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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Verb

beseek (third-person singular simple present beseeks, present participle beseeking, simple past and past participle besought)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, transitive) To beseech; entreat.