beseech
verb (used with object)
to implore urgently.
had besought
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past perfectof beseech.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For years, Belgians had besought their remote, unhappy King Baudouin to take a wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
As if I had besought them as a favour to bother my life out.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
On his prayer list were the names of some for whom he had besought God, daily, by name, for one, two, three, four, six, ten years before the answer was given.
From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson
He had besought her to come with him to the 'temple.'
From Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Representatives of leading firms had besought his attention and patronage as they explained the peculiar merits of their own machines.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
