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Adjective: beseeching  bi'see-ching
  1. Begging
    "I am beseeching you on her behalf";
    - pleading, imploring
Verb: beseech (beseeched, also besought)  bi'seech
  1. Ask for or request earnestly
    "The charity beseeched donors for additional funds";
    - bid, entreat, adjure, press, conjure [archaic]

See also: adjuratory, importunate, mendicant, petitionary, precative, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory

Type of: plead

Antonym: imperative

Encyclopedia: Beseech