Be sought

verb

a simple past tense and past participle of beseech.

Related forms

un·be·sought, adjective

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verb (used with object)

to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.

to beg eagerly for; solicit.

verb (used without object)

to make urgent appeal: Earnestly did I beseech, but to no avail.

Origin:
before 1100; Middle English bisechen, Old English besēcan. See be-, seek

Related forms

be·seech·er, noun

be·seech·ing·ly, adverb

be·seech·ing·ness, noun

un·be·seech·ing, adjective

un·be·seech·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. pray, petition, supplicate, adjure. 1, 2. entreat, importune.

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beseech (bɪˈsiːtʃ)

—vb , -seeches, -seeching, -sought, -seeched
	(tr) to ask (someone) earnestly (to do something or for something); beg

[C12: see be-, seek; related to Old Frisian besēka]

be'seecher

—n

be'seeching

—*adj*

be'seechingly

—*adv*

besought (bɪˈsɔːt)

—vb
	the past tense and past participle of beseech

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Word Origin & History

beseech

late 12c., bisecen "to beseech, beg urgently," from be- + M.E. secen "to seek" (see seek). Ger. cognate besuchen is merely "to visit."

besought

M.E. besohte, p.t. and pp. of beseech.

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"Our discussion will be adequate; if it has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of; for precision is not to be sought for alike in all discussions, and more than in all the products of the crafts. Now fine and just actions, which political science investigates, exhibit much variety and fluctuation, so that they may be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature. And goods also exhibit a similar fluctuation.... We must be content, then, in speaking of such subjects and with such premises, to indicate the truth roughly and in outline.... In the same spirit, therefore, should each of our statements be received; for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits: it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs."

-Aristotle

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