[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being beseeching.
1818. Milman, Samor, 710.
| On his lips | |
| Clung wretched, pale, beseechingness, that framed | |
| Nor word nor sound. |
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, xlviii. The husband’s determination to mastery, which lay deep below all blandness and beseechingness.
