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beseech

verbosostantivoattestato nei dialoghi

  • //bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ//

To beg or implore something of (a person).

verbo

  1. 1

    To beg or implore something of (a person).

    [W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]

    I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior.

    after what manner, I beseech you, must the mind proceed in this operation?

    She besought him, for his Soul's sake to speak the truth.

  2. 2

    To beg or request for (something).

    [T]he tickets had all been given out, begged, besought long ago.

Etimologia

From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besäike (“to visit”), Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”), German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”), Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”). By surface analysis, be- + seech.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    arcaicoA request.

    Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]

Forme

plurale
beseeches
passato
beseeched, besought
participio passato
beseeched, besought
participio presente
beseeching
3ª persona singolare
beseeches
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

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