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    His prayer didn't give thanks for his sheep having found new pastures; it didn't ask that the boy be able to sell more crystal; and it didn't beseech that the woman he had met continue to await his return.  (source)
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    Finally I walked to the window and gazed out at the peach trees stretching halfway to North Carolina, the way they held up their leafy arms in gestures of pure beseeching.  (source)
    beseeching = asking strongly or begging
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    She begged and wept and beseeched her husband to change his mind, to let it go,  (source)
    beseeched = asked strongly or begged
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    Aphrodite, with the Goddess's voice I beseech you to tell her Priestess what it is you see.  (source)
    beseech = ask strongly or beg
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    Then, turning to him, "Oh, do let's go back, Bernard," she besought; "I do so hate it here."†  (source)
    besought = asked strongly or begged for something
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    He closed by beseeching God to look down upon this humble little church and bless this gathering.  (source)
    beseeching = asking strongly (with all his heart)
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    (Beseechingly) Then why can't there never be no peace in this house then?  (source)
    Beseechingly = in a manner that asks strongly or begs
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    —beseeched Lemry to prohibit Ellerby from driving it to meets, including those at our own school, and to put a major squelch on his sacrilegious antics whenever he is any way representing the school or the team.†  (source)
    beseeched = asked or begged
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    If the dead can appear to the living, Lourdes beseeches God through tears, allow Victor to show himself so she can say good-bye.†  (source)
    beseeches = asks strongly or begs
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    Armor called his father-in-law Mr. Miller ever since Al throwed him out of the house into the snow that time he came to say Al Junior was dying cause the family committed the sin of using hexes and beseechings.†  (source)
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    'Tis most true; And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties To hear and see the matter.†  (source)
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    Idleness had been worse; My labour will sustain me; and, lest cold Or heat should injure us, his timely care Hath, unbesought, provided; and his hands Clothed us unworthy, pitying while he judged; How much more, if we pray him, will his ear Be open, and his heart to pity incline, And teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!†  (source)
    unbesought = not asked
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbesought means not and reverses the meaning of besought. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    This is the pledge and oath I swore, What thou besoughtest, and no more, Of Ráma—for I heard thee, dame— When he for consecration came.†  (source)
    besoughtest = asked strongly or begged for something
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou besoughtest" in older English, later they said, "You besought."
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