beseech
Plead with urgency
To beseech is to ask urgently, to implore or beg.
The word is formal and literary, carrying more emotional weight than simply asking: I beseech you to reconsider.
It suggests desperation or deep sincerity, often directed at someone with power to grant what's needed.
The past tense is besought or beseeched.
Urge with desperation
- entreatPlead urgently with someone
- pleadAsk urgently or formally
- begAsk with desperation
- appealFormal review request
request · adjure · importune · crave · desperate · earnest · tearful · anguished
Address a deity
- invokeCall upon formally
- supplicateBeg earnestly and humbly
- intercedeIntervene on behalf
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
intercession · kneel · devotion · mercy · divine · blessing · almighty · heavenly
Formal written appeal
- solicitRequest with persistence
- lobbyEntryway or influence-seeking
- applicationFormal request document
- suitMatched formal garments
overture · requisition · formal · written · signature · advocate · represent · submission
implore
Urge with desperation
appeal · request · adjure · importune · crave · desperate · earnest · tearful · anguished · heartfelt
pray
Address a deity
- invokeCall upon formally
- supplicateBeg earnestly and humbly
- intercedeIntervene on behalf
invocation · intercession · kneel · devotion · mercy · divine · blessing · almighty · heavenly · sanctuary
petition
Formal written appeal
- solicitRequest with persistence
- lobbyEntryway or influence-seeking
- applicationFormal request document
suit · overture · requisition · formal · written · signature · advocate · represent · submission · hearing
urge
Strong inner drive
cajole · coax · wheedle · imploring · convince · sway · influence · prevail · appeal · reason