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Definition of beseeching :
1. Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look.
2. of Beseech
Synonyms:
petitionary, adjuratory, suppliant, precative, precatory, supplicant, importunate, mendicant, supplicatory
appealing (part of speech: verb)
begging, appealing, imploring, greeting, applying, addressing, petitioning, entreating, pleading, requesting, soliciting, supplicating, approaching, enticing, buttonholing, accosting, inviting
Usage examples:
- He was on his knees now, thin hands raised in beseeching. - "A Fool There Was", Porter Emerson Browne.
- Whom was she beseeching? - "The Soul of a People", H. Fielding.
- He turned to watch the Blue's catcher recover the ball, and at that instant he saw the face of Betty Tabor, strained, white, beseeching, as the girl, still mud- splattered and stained from the long race, leaned forward. - "Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant", Hugh S. Fullerton.