beseech \bi-SEECH\, verb; （beseech, besought or beseeched, beseeching: ）
to ask earnestly; implore
In this purgatory, the narrator feels threatened by more recent emigres who beseech him for help and force him to face the hard fact of his own displacement.
-- Laura Winters, Moscow on the Thames, New York Times, January 5, 1997
"Spare your poor children these vulgarities, I beseech you," his wife might protest, to hone her point that he was not a gentleman.
-- Peter Matthiessen, Bone by Bone
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