Word Meanings - BESEECHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. Goodwin.

Related words: (words related to BESEECHMENT)

• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• EARNESTLY
  In an earnest manner.
• BESEECHING
  Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
• BESEECHER
  One who beseeches.
• BESEECHMENT
  The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. Goodwin.
• ENTREAT
  1. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11. 2. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition
• ENTREATER
  One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
• ENTREATIVE
  Used in entreaty; pleading. "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.
• ENTREATANCE
  Entreaty. Fairfax.
• ENTREATMENT
  Entreaty; invitation. Shak.
• ENTREATABLE
  That may be entreated.
• ENTREATINGLY
  In an entreating manner.
• MISENTREAT
  To treat wrongfully. Grafton.