beseechment

From beseech +‎ -ment.

beseechment (countable and uncountable, plural beseechments)

1. The act of beseeching; imploration.
   • a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Work of the Holy Ghost in Our Salvation:

     Which beseechment denotes not only their Gracious Condescention , or meer , desire to us , but loudly speaks the absolute necessity of our appointment

   • 2023, Yomi Adegoke, The List, 4th Estate, page 317:

     ‘Ola,’ Michael said, his knees bent and his hands touched together in beseechment. He looked like he was begging for his life.

• “beseechment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.