(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.
Supplicate
Definition:
(v. t.) To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; to ask for earnestly and humbly; as, to supplicate blessings on Christian efforts to spread the gospel.
(v. t.) To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the Deity.
(v. i.) To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then suddenly a horrible drought comes along, and they can’t figure out why they can’t supplicate their gods adequately to prevent it.” It didn’t help that Tikal’s water management system had become increasingly reliant on collecting rainwater in reservoirs, at the cost of groundwater.
(2) In those times the few humans who passed that way came as supplicants, filled with a sense of awe and magic.
(3) She added: “It makes you wonder: what does Putin have on Trump that could make Trump act like a supplicant on the international stage?
(4) And my mind turned again to Michael Gove , who, to put their relationship in terms of Gove’s beloved Dennis Wheatley, is the supplicant Simon Aron to Boris’s satanic Mocata, their joint prize the mummified phallus of Conservative party power.
(5) Young people are reduced to being supplicants,” he says.
(6) With minimal media interest, the US African Command (Africom) has deployed troops to 35 African countries, establishing a familiar network of authoritarian supplicants eager for bribes and armaments.
(7) Supplicant states don’t probe too deeply into delicacies, such as where profits are actually earned, and then set out what it is deemed reasonable for a corporate to pay in so-called “letters of comfort”.
(8) So Daniel Blake is not a supplicant, he’s a man of dignity.” First thing in the morning, I feel about 85.
(9) Unfavourable factors for long-term course were: low intellectual capacity (W), hysteroid personality (C), syntonic personality (W), asthenic personality, sensitivity to praise (C), tendency to feel under observation (W), and some symptoms during the index period: tendency to seclusion (C), ideas of reference (C), dryness of mouth (C), difficulty in falling asleep (C), dreamlike feeling (C), supplicating attitude (C).
(10) I deliberately used archaic language for the chorus: "banish" rather than "drive out" and "we pray thee", a supplication not in the original.
(11) If this chancellor has a vision, it’s one of Britain supplicating before authoritarian regimes while our high-technology renewables industry goes to the wall.” A spokesman for the prime minister declined to elaborate on why the Saudi trip cost so much more than other overseas trips.
(12) Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades.
(13) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
(14) We're like sovereign and supplicant, but Perlman, at once bearish and boyish, remains a plain-spoken kid from the northern end of Manhattan, not anxious to lord it up or sound too clever.
(15) And that switch from buyer to seller, from potentate to supplicant, is notoriously difficult.
(16) A trio of musicians - accordion, bajo sexto and double bass - drift in and launch into one of the many corridos written about the narco-saint - another offering from a grateful supplicant.
(17) Couples go out for dinner and spend the entire time with their heads bent in silent supplication to the glowing god.
(18) It looks to outsiders as if Ireland has received only a lukewarm embrace from its EU partners, who have chosen to send a message to other would-be supplicants that it's better to stay away.
(19) Yet, consider the mainstream supplication that welcomed the Wikileaks editorial.
(20) What degree of transparency and accountability can we, as supplicants, enforce on our new partner?