Thesaurus / beseech
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This recognizes how weird we are feeling after a year-plus of isolation and being inside, as it beseeches us to get the hell out of the house.
ANN DOWD GOES FROM ‘HANDMAID’S TALE’ VILLAIN AUNT LYDIA TO ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE’TIM TEEMANJULY 2, 2021THE DAILY BEASTI beseech your Majesty to be pleased to have executed immediately what is most expedient for the royal service in this matter.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSOr thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
HIS LAST WEEKWILLIAM E. BARTONDeliver us not up for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name's sake, and abolish not thy covenant.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSAnd now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSObtain for me, I beseech thee, a happy death, that I may praise and glorify thy might and kindness forever in heaven.
MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANSVARIOUSWe beseech thee and thy council, to read these following lines in tender bowels, and compassion for our souls, and for your good.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXENo, but I have determined to do so; and I beseech you once more not to bring forward any reason to dissuade me from it.
THE MISER (L'AVARE)MOLIREI beseech your Majesty to address your rebuke chiefly, at least, to me.
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILLGILBERT K. CHESTERTONHe speaketh of freedom, but I beseech him not to send me back to that!
PHARAOH'S BROKERELLSWORTH DOUGLASSWORDS RELATED TO BESEECH
- allure
- ask in marriage
- attract
- beseech
- bid
- bootlick
- captivate
- charm
- chase
- cultivate
- curry favor
- date
- entice
- entreat
- flatter
- follow
- gallant
- go out with
- go steady
- go together
- go with
- grovel
- importune
- invite
- keep company with
- make love to
- make overture
- make time with
- pander to
- pay addresses to
- pay court to
- please
- pop the question
- praise
- propose
- pursue
- run after
- seek
- seek the hand of
- serenade
- set one's cap
- solicit
- spark
- spoon
- sue
- sweetheart
- take out
- woo
- allured
- asked in marriage
- attracted
- bade
- besought
- bootlicked
- captivated
- charmed
- chased
- cultivated
- curried favor
- dated
- enticed
- entreated
- flattered
- followed
- gallanted
- grovelled
- importuned
- invited
- kept company with
- made love to
- made overture
- made time with
- paid addresses to
- paid court to
- pandered to
- pleased
- popped the question
- praised
- proposed
- pursued
- ran after
- serenaded
- set one's cap
- solicited
- sought
- sought the hand of
- sparked
- spooned
- sued
- sweethearted
- took out
- went out with
- went steady
- went together
- went with
- wooed
- abuse
- appeal
- apply
- arrogate
- badger
- beg
- beseech
- besiege
- bid
- challenge
- charge
- cite
- claim
- clamor for
- coerce
- command
- compel
- constrain
- counterclaim
- direct
- dun
- enjoin
- entreat
- exact
- expect
- force
- hit
- hit up
- impetrate
- implore
- importune
- inquire
- insist on
- interrogate
- knock
- nag
- necessitate
- oblige
- order
- pester
- petition
- postulate
- pray
- press
- question
- request
- require
- requisition
- solicit
- stipulate
- sue for
- summon
- supplicate
- tax
- urge
- whistle for
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