Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: beseech
IPA transcription: [bis'itʃ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure
    Meaning: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
Usage examples
  • "Eat, I beseech you.
  • "For the last time let me beseech you.
  • I beseech you to accelerate your step."
  • Place me upon my knees, my brethren, I beseech you!"
  • It's time, high time to go. Don't follow me, I beseech you, I have somewhere else to go....
  • Also I beseech your good grace that I may take my leave at my lady, your daughter, and at all the barons and knights.
  • But Absalom sent to Joab, and desired him to pacify his father entirely towards him; and to beseech him to give him leave to come to him to see him, and speak with him.
  • "Ah, lady," said he, "I will obey you; but I beseech you that you will not for ever steel your heart against me." "Palamedes," she replied, "may I never taste of joy again if I ever quit my first love." Palamedes then went his way.
  • Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly beseech Your Majesty to remove all those restraints on Your Majesty's governors of this colony which inhibit their assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce."