have besought

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of beseech.
  beseech

  verb (used with object)

  to implore urgently.

Example Sentences

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have besought

So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Recently I have besought him to consider how mortally embarrassed he would be if we were to be unexpectedly visited by the President.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any medical practitioner can testify to the number of young wives who have besought them to murder their unborn children because they were "boarding," and it was "not convenient to have a family."

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall

He was thus, apparently, in all respects, precisely such an auxiliary as they would have besought Providence to afford them, to accomplish the hazardous enterprise they had so daringly projected and commenced.

From Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an Unexplored Region; and the Possession of two Remarkable Aztec Children, Descendants and Specimens of the Sacerdotal Caste, (now nearly extinct,) of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country, Described by John L. Stevens, Esq., and Other Travellers. by Pedro Velasquez

He besought the rioters to disperse, but he might as well have besought the waves breaking on Nastasket Beach to disperse.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

Related Words

• implore