beseechingly

comparative more beseechingly · superlative most beseechingly

1. In a beseeching manner.

   Now she opened the window and called beseechingly.

   1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 58

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   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!"

   1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 40, in Little Women

   Synonyms: entreatingly, imploringly