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PRONUNCIATION OF BESEECHING

beseeching  [bɪˈsiːtʃɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BESEECHING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Beseeching is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BESEECHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

beseeching

Begging

Begging or panhandling is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation. Beggars may be found in public places such as transport routes, urban parks, and near busy markets. Besides money, they may also ask for food, drink, cigarettes or other small items. Beggar, 1622, by Jacques Callot According to a study in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, " stated that they would prefer a minimum-wage job, typically citing a desire for a 'steady income' or 'getting off the street.' However, many felt they could not handle conventional jobs because of mental illness, physical disability or lack of skills."...

Definition of beseeching in the English dictionary

The definition of beseeching in the dictionary is someone with a beseeching expression or tone conveys how much they want something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BESEECHING


approaching
əˈprəʊtʃɪŋ
birching
ˈbɜːtʃɪŋ
catching
ˈkætʃɪŋ
Ching
tʃɪŋ
churching
ˈtʃɜːtʃɪŋ
coaching
ˈkəʊˌtʃɪŋ
Kuching
ˈkuːtʃɪŋ
launching
ˈlɔːntʃɪŋ
lurching
ˈlɜːtʃɪŋ
matching
ˈmætʃɪŋ
nonteaching
nɒnˈtiːtʃɪŋ
overarching
ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃɪŋ
scorching
ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ
screeching
ˈskriːtʃɪŋ
searching
ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ
stitching
ˈstɪtʃɪŋ
stretching
ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ
strip-searching
ˈstrɪpˌsɜːtʃɪŋ
teaching
ˈtiːtʃɪŋ
touching
ˈtʌtʃɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BESEECHING

bescatter
bescorch
bescour
bescrawl
bescreen
bescribble
besee
beseech
beseecher
beseechingly
beseechingness
beseem
beseemingly
beseemingness
beseemly
beset
besetment
besetter
besetting

WORDS THAT END LIKE BESEECHING

aching
anything
bewitching
birdwatching
bitching
branching
couching
English Language Teaching
enriching
etching
eye-catching
far-reaching
fetching
geocaching
hatching
itching
quenching
scratching
squelching
twitching
whale watching

Synonyms and antonyms of beseeching in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BESEECHING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «beseeching» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of beseeching

Translation of «beseeching» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BESEECHING

Find out the translation of beseeching to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beseeching from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beseeching» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恳求
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

suplicando
570 millions of speakers

English

beseeching
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आनत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التضرع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

умоляя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rogando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সানুনয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

implorant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Beseeching
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

flehend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

懇願するような
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

간청
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Beseeching
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

van xin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

beseeching
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विनवणी करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yalvaran
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

implorante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prosząc
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

благаючи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rugându
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βιάζοντας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

smeek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bönfallande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bønnfalt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beseeching

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BESEECHING»

The term «beseeching» is normally little used and occupies the 130.144 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BESEECHING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «beseeching» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «beseeching» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beseeching

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BESEECHING»

Discover the use of beseeching in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beseeching and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Beseeching: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you!
‎2008
2
The Ground of Our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of ...
(220) To protect us against feeling as "barren and as dry, often, after our prayers as we were before," averred Dame Julian, the Lord said, " 'I am the ground of thy beseeching.' " The pain of sin leads us to the expanding love of Christ's mercy; ...
Peter Sharpe, 2004
3
English Irregular Verbs: Master 250 irregular verbs in English
... would be beseeching wouldhave been BESET Mode Indicative Tense Simple Present Present Perfect Simple Past. beseeching they will be beseeching willhavebeenbeseeching would be beseeching wouldhave been beseeching.
TZ-one, 2013
4
Revelations of Divine Love
And all this brought our Lord suddenly to my mind, and shewed these words, and said : “I am Ground of thy beseeching: first it is my will that thou have it; and after, I make thee to will it; and since, I make thee to beseech it and thou beseechest ...
Julian of Norwich, Roger Hudleston, 2012
5
Notes on Scriptural Messages (3)
Moreover, the “watchful at every time, beseeching” does not refer to daily praying and beseechings that we have. In the original language, this expression qualifies what is described afterwards. After theword beseeching there should bea ...
Watchman Nee, 1992
6
Plowed Under: A Young Girl’s Obedience. God’s Ever-Present Grace
I. am. the. Ground. of. thy. Beseeching. UT memory, arbitrary, selective, picks out a few threads from the texture of that Bnight, and I see them lying before me. They are as it were yellow, a dull yellowochre color, for that was the color of the ...
Amy Carmichael, 2013
7
The Lord and Giver of Life: Perspectives on Constructive ...
The biblical view of the Spirit as divine breathing that generates language, bearing prophets and apostles to speak God's word, beseeching the people of God in all times to build consensus in congregational life, was subordinated to a  ...
David Hadley Jensen, 2008
8
With Pity Not With Blame
Although we can trace a process of development here, yearning leading to beseeching, and beseeching to beholding, we must be careful not to suggest that yearning, for example, belongs only to the early stages of the spiritual endeavour,  ...
Robert Llewelyn, 2013
9
Faithful Labourers: a Reception History of Paradise Lost, ...
Had Hall 'lived long enough', he might have got his revenge, for Milton produces ' an echo almost tallying' with 'teach each' in 'Beseeching or besieging' (V. 869). Lowell calls this 'a pun worthy of Milton's worst prose' and adds that Hall 'might ...
Assistant Professor Department of English John Leonard, John Leonard, 2012
10
Pillars of Flame: Power, Priesthood, and Spiritual Maturity
[italics mine]15 In seeking solitude, we return to the humility of openness within which we can hear the resonance of God's beseeching in our own heart. This is our true union with God, in which we are found and find our being (Ps 42). Our task ...
Maggie Ross, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BESEECHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beseeching is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Zinke's forest bill: Return to fundamentals for winning chance
Ryan Zinke of Montana delivered the Republican Party's weekly nationwide address on Saturday, beseeching Congress and the president … «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
2
Washington's Wildfire Season Gets Off to an Early, Unprecedented …
At a briefing Wednesday morning, Chelan County fire Chief Mike Burnett was blunt, beseeching residents to do everything they could to keep ... «Sci-Tech Today, Jul 15»
3
A Peek At Monastic Life Through Nun Wolete Wold's Paintings
The topmost duty in a monastery is praising the Lord with songs,beseeching Him with prayers and subduing the desire of the flesh through ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
4
Elite justices gone rogue, abandoned Constitution
Instead, they flock to Washington, beseeching the judicial augurs for a favorable oracle. The rest of us just wait on the courthouse steps to see ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
5
Washington's wildfire season gets off to an early, unprecedented start
At a briefing Wednesday morning, Chelan County fire Chief Mike Burnett was blunt, beseeching residents to do everything they could to keep ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
6
Business people are the new trade unions - unelected but …
... dispelling the ancient caricature in which the man from the CBI features as a modern version of Dickens' Mr Gradgrind, grimly beseeching the ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
7
The bottom line: Adultery thrives in the market place
Another ad featured a zombie husband and a wife on the verge of beating him with a baseball bat, but is distracted by a TV ad beseeching her ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
8
ITV News: France reject Julian Assange asylum request
Le Monde newspaper has published an open letter from Wikileaker-in-Chief Julian Assange™ beseeching France to grant him asylum. «iFreePress.com, Jul 15»
9
HITTING WALL: Nation of Greece prepares for economic meltdown
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Business leaders are pleading with the Bank of Greece. They're beseeching for the immediate release ... «Catholic Online, Jul 15»
10
Gig review: John Legend, Glasgow
New song Please Don't Go is a simple but beseeching ballad, while the pleasing flow of Ordinary People is still the classiest thing Will.i.am has ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»

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