All 13 Uses of
beseech
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I most humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverend care of your health.†
Scene 1.2
- I beseech you, stand to me.†
Scene 2.1
- But for these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress against them.†
Scene 2.1
- Good morrow, honest gentlemen: I beseech you, which is justice Shallow?†
Scene 3.2
- Let me see them, I beseech you.†
Scene 3.2 *
- I know not: here he is, and here I yield him: and I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top on't, Colevile kissing my foot: to the which course if I be enforced, if you do not all show like gilt twopences to me, and I in the clear sky of fame o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth the cinders of the element, which show like pins' heads to her, believe not…†
Scene 4.3
- My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go through Gloucestershire: and, when you come to court, stand my good lord, pray, in your good report.†
Scene 4.3
- I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.†
Scene 5.1
- The knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced.†
Scene 5.1
- And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you; My father is gone wild into his grave, For in his tomb lie my affections; And with his spirit sadly I survive, To mock the expectation of the world, To frustrate prophecies and to raze out Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down After my seeming.†
Scene 5.2
- Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me have home with me.†
Scene 5.5
- I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.†
Scene 5.5
- One word more, I beseech you.†
Scene 5.5
Definition:
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(beseech) to ask strongly or beg for somethingeditor's notes: Beseech is common in classic literature. Though its usage has doubled in recent decades, it remains a rare word in modern writing.
Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Beseech is similar to beg or entreat. Beg implies the request for a personal favor, while entreat implies an attempt to overcome resistance.