as in prayerful
asking humbly
a beseeching letter from his parents asking him to bring the grandchildren for a long overdue visit
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as in pleading
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as in begging
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
parishioners ardently beseeched the local bishop not to close their beloved church
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Recent Examples of beseeching
Howard Blum,
Washington Post,
26 June 2024
The same beseeching gaze gets complicated by a character like Dre—at once naïve and ruthless, in control yet entirely lost.
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Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2023
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
This case has seen lot of what amounts to table-pounding by the defense, with a constant rat-a-tat-tat of motions, demands for discovery, followed by more beseeching requests.
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Howard Blum,
Washington Post,
26 June 2024
The same beseeching gaze gets complicated by a character like Dre—at once naïve and ruthless, in control yet entirely lost.
—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2023
Noun
Prayer is a basic practice of almost all religions, and what is prayer if not a beseeching of a synchronicity from God?
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Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
Some Cypress Village residents are beseeching the city to keep it that way, even as the HOA applies to let the pickle balling resume.
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Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beseeching
Adjective
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Tigua dancers of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo performed a prayerful ceremony traditional before a hunt.
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That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.
Noun
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Friends and teammates had also made a video pleading for more machinery.
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Those health claims are the plaintiffs’, advanced in the pleading.
Verb
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Its dressing—creamy from mayonnaise, subtly sweet from a touch of sugar—is begging for the pickle's salty acidity.
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The 2026 Toyota Crown is a tame but stylish family car, neither begging you to go off-road or to step on it around country mountains, but instead being an all-around great hauler with the quality Toyota’s known for.
Noun
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Congress for a time had stopped hearing anti-slavery petitions as too divisive.
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In addition to his restraining order, Tate also filed a petition to modify the terms of their divorce and custody agreement.
Verb
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However, there's already a group petitioning against the idea of the mall becoming an industrial park.
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Stated differently, Sorsby petitioning the NFL doesn’t mean the NFL will grant the petition.
Noun
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These are the people who will likely be most amenable to negotiations or personal entreaties.
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Rajoub refused the entreaty, much to the frustration and embarrassment of Infantino.
Noun
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Given the dramatic manner in which the hulking piers marched down the center of the institution’s narrow corridor, flanked by the photographer’s three-inch-square Polaroids, hung as if in awed supplication, the effect verged on hyperbole, the gnomic ceding to the grandiose.
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Like the appeals made by women during the antiquity to midwife goddesses, prayer and supplication were ways to affirm intentions for healthy pregnancies, calm labors, and living children.
Noun
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But Old Trafford’s direct imploring of him to stay beyond the end of the current season should leave them in no doubt.
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“Beseeching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beseeching. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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