Question

LITERARY: to ask someone eagerly and anxiously to do something (not "to beg", not "to plead", not "to implore")

Accepted Answer

She BESEECHED / BESOUGHT him to cut his drinking and his smoking. /  `How are we going to pay for all those planes we ordered?' they BESEECHED / BESOUGHT Mr Ryan.

Front	LITERARY: to ask someone eagerly and anxiously to do something (not "to beg", not "to plead", not "to implore")
Back	She BESEECHED / BESOUGHT him to cut his drinking and his smoking. / `How are we going to pay for all those planes we ordered?' they BESEECHED / BESOUGHT Mr Ryan.

Beseeched Besought Literary Eagerly Anxiously Beg Plead Implore