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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
besought/bɪˈsɔːt/

past and past participle of beseech.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beseech/bɪˈsiːtʃ/

▶verb (past and past part. besought or beseeched) literary ask (someone) urgently and fervently for something.

– derivatives
beseeching adjective,
beseechingly adverb.

– origin ME: from be- + OE sēcan (see seek).

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