Beseek
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To beseech; entreat. Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, transitive
"I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior."
Example
More examples"I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior."
Etymology
From Middle English beseken, equivalent to be- + seek. Cognate with Scots beseik (“to beseek”). By surface analysis, be- + seek. Doublet of beseech.
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