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English
Etymology
beseeching + -ly
Adverb
beseechingly (comparative more beseechingly, superlative most beseechingly)
- In a beseeching manner.
1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 40, in Little Women:Such heavy days, such long, long nights, such aching hearts and imploring prayers, when those who loved her best were forced to see the thin hands stretched out to them beseechingly, to hear the bitter cry, "Help me, help me!"
1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 58:Now she opened the window and called beseechingly.
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