[f. BESEECH v. + -MENT.] Beseeching, supplication.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Wks. (1863), VI. 118. Which beseechment denotes … their gracious condescension.
1880. Miss Broughton, Sec. Th., II. III. viii. 253. Casting a glance of abject beseechment at his niece.
