Word.ws English Dictionary

bespeeching

bespeeching is the present participle and gerund of bespeech.

Meaning of bespeech

Verb

bespeech (third-person singular simple present bespeeches, present participle bespeeching, simple past and past participle bespeeched)

  1. (transitive) To address in speech
    • When James the First had once bespeeched his parliament, Bishop Williams, Keeper of the Great Seal, added — that, after his Majesty's divinum et immortale dictum, he would not dare mortale aliquid addere.1822, Alexander Pope, The Recreative Review

Questions about bespeeching

What is bespeeching the present participle and gerund of?
Bespeeching is the present participle and gerund of bespeech.

Words near bespeeching in the dictionary

  1. bespectacled
  2. besped
  3. bespeech
  4. bespeeched
  5. bespeeches
  6. bespeeching
  7. bespeed
  8. bespeeded
  9. bespeeding
  10. bespeeds
  11. bespell

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bespeeching (page history and authors); bespeech (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bespeeching.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bespeeching. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.