Definition of Beseeches

1. Verb. (third-person singular of beseech) ¹

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Definition of Beseeches

1. beseech [v] - See also: beseech

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beseeches

bescrawling
bescrawls
bescreen
bescreened
bescreening
bescreens
bescribble
bescribbled
bescribbles
bescribbling
besee
beseech
beseeched
beseecher
beseechers
beseeches
beseeching
beseechingly
beseechingness
beseechings
beseechment
beseechments
beseeing
beseek
beseeke
beseekes
beseeking
beseem
beseemed
beseemest

Literary usage of Beseeches

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"He beseeches Death for the Life of Beatrice. DEATH, since I find not one with whom to grieve, Nor whom this grief of mine may move to tears, No single joy, ..."

2. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him. (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1892)
"He beseeches Death for the Life of Beatrice. DEATH, since I find not one with whom to grieve, Nor whom this grief of mine may move to tears, Whereso I be or ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"In his funeral oration for his brother Satyrus St. Ambrose beseeches God to accept propitiously his "brotherly service of priestly sacrifice" ..."

4. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"CHAP. I. His blood.' These are ' figurative speeches.'* In one place, where he speaks with great decision, he beseeches his readers ..."

5. The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200 by Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Chiswick Press (1861)
"He beseeches Death for the Life of Beatrice. DEATH, since I find not one with whom to grieve, Nor whom this grief of mine may move to tears, Whereso I be or ..."

6. Letters of Eminent Persons, Addressed to David Hume by John Hill Burton (1849)
"... characteristics—Separates her correspondent from the crowd of slaves, but beseeches him not to drive her sensibilities back upon miserable prudence. ..."

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