beseechment

English

Etymology

beseech +‎ -ment

Noun

beseechment (countable and uncountable, plural beseechments)

1. The act of beseeching; earnest entreaty.
   • a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Work of the Holy Ghost in Our Salvation:

     Which beseechment denotes not only their Gracious Condescention , or meer , desire to us , but loudly speaks the absolute necessity of our appointment

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “beseechment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)