Both Uses
beseech
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- Your suspicions are incorrect and ill founded, and I beseech you to use whatever relationships with which you are bestowed to return home at once my most senior staff member, be they, these relationships, with the police, the politicians, or with her abductors themselves.†
Chpt 8
- I secured the doors shut and beseeched him, "Dear husband, I beg you for news of my friend."†
Chpt 8 *beseeched = asked or begged
Definitions:
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(1)
(beseech) to ask strongly or beg for somethingBeseech 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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)