(v. t.) To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
(n.) Solicitation; supplication.
Example Sentences:
(1) After his death, the young man's parents contacted police to admit that they had helped him achieve his wish to end "a second-class existence" by taking him abroad – despite praying to the last second, and beseeching him to change his mind.
(2) Opposition to the policy decision was mounted by the American Medical Association which considered it "frightening and abhorrent" and the american College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists which beseeched Congress to restore the patient's rights to receive full information and the health professional obligation to provide the information.
(3) In the name of this suffering people, whose cries to heaven become more deafening each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression,” he said in a speech to government soldiers the day before his death.
(4) He's beseeching the members of the committee to recognize the value of the work the intelligence community does.
(5) This is not a man who has to charm or beseech an audience; his ideas are what he uses to win people over.
(6) He stares at her, “beseeching, demanding my help, but I am powerless, too.
(8) The prime minister doesn’t hesitate to beseech the markets to attack the country,” Syriza said.
(9) After its Google News search returned more than 43,000 results for the search "Hollande + Normal", and more than 88,000 for "President + normal", the site launched a "No 'Normal' Day", hashtagged on Twitter, in which it beseeched journalists to broaden their vocabulary, asking did they really mean "normal", or perhaps "ordinary", "natural", "sober", "honest" or "reasonable"?
(10) Kassig’s parents have also posted a video message online beseeching the group to release him unharmed.
(11) At least 100,000 tourists who had driven to Greece from neighbouring Bulgaria and Serbia were stranded, with thousands abandoning their cars by the side of the road and officials taking the highly unusual step of beseeching visitors to stock up on fuel in Macedonia.
(12) That said, the Telegraph’s commenting threads do not seem to be similarly filled with Green party supporters beseeching its readership to consider the full consequences of climate change.
(13) His critic pleaded for "this whole sorry saga to go the way of the dodo", while other Fry fans beseeched him not pull the plug on his tweets, prompting Fry into a change of heart.
(14) he was asked by beseeching Spanish reporters after taking training at Seville, as the saga of his move to Spurs dragged on.
(15) Finally, the necessity of uniform techniques and methods of evaluation is beseeched so that results of new innovations can be analyzed earlier and more critically.
(16) But, beseeched Paxman, "do you think that's a greater consideration than the fact that they might be in love?"
(17) Come see yourself.” Blair urged Gaddafi to give him a phone number so he could contact him urgently, and beseeched him to “do something that allows the process to start, end the bloodshed, start a new constitution”.
(18) In debates with friends, family and neighbours, at times hectoring, at others beseeching, filled with venom and vigour on both sides, such a close race is going to be won one vote at a time.
(19) Oscillating between fury and despair, the customers beseech pharmacists to hand over medications that they frequently do not have in stock.
(20) Seconds before, Dalglish was on the touchline beseeching his player to calm down.
Halse
Definition:
(v. t.) To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
(v. t.) To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.
(v. t.) To haul; to hoist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jim McDermott Woodford Halse, Northamptonshire • The last Labour government broadly asked the right questions about our constitution.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A typical view of a Northamptonshire field through which HS2 will pass, near Halse Copse.