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Synonyms for beseech

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Synonyms for beseech

to make an earnest or urgent request

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Synonyms for beseech

ask for or request earnestly

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A patriotic plea concludes the narrative, as Hasleton beseeches this merciful God, so clearly on England's side, "to prolong the days of our most gracious and renowned Queen, whose fame reacheth far and whose most happy government is in admiration with foreign princes" (95).
Shelley-vision salutes you and once more beseeches you: KILLLLL GAILLLL.
Mordecai's daughter Martha was overcome with grief as she read Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night," in which a son beseeches his father to "Rage, rage at the dying of the light." The poem was surely very inappropriate, since, first of all, it is useless to rage against death, and, second, Thomas would have been a most unfortunate example to follow, since he died, far from his wife and his native Wales, in a New York bar, where he drank himself to death.
In this editorial, the author beseeches the statistical community to move away from statistical procedures that treat single sets of data (SSOD) and return to the use of many sets of data (MSOD) as a foundation for statistical significance.