Definition of "besought" []

• A past tense and a past participle of beseech. (verb)

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• "Presently Ala al-Din besought her to let him hear a little music; so she took the lute and played a melody that had made the hardest stone dance for glee, and the strings cried out in present ecstacy, O Loving"
• "Allah and again besought forgiveness of Him, submitting herself to the decrees of destiny, assured that each beginning hath his end, and repeating the saying of the poet,"
• "A crowd was now gathering, and Mrs. Mirvan again besought her husband to go into the house."