beseechern.
/bɪˈsiːtʃə/ 1. One who beseeches; a suppliant, a petitioner.
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the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals
beseecher1382
petitioner1414
suitor1414
orator1417
suppliantc1422
supplicant1475
soliciter1536
solicitor1551
oratricle1574
pleader1584
supplicationer1585
beggar1589
incaller?1591
supplicator1593
petitor1596
beadsman1600
impetrator1605
implorer1611
imploratora1616
replicant1622
invokera1649
prostrate1648
deprecator1656
appellant1704
memorialist1706
applicationer1710
postulant1733
invocant1751
solicitant1821
petitionist1822
memorializer1859
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Zeph. iii. 10 Fro thennis my bisecheris..shuln brynge a ȝift to me.
1508 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. i. 253 Shewe hymselfe yrefull ayenst his subgecte and besecher.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxxv. sig. I Let no vnkinde, no faire beseechers kill. View more context for this quotation
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. vi. 38 His answer..terrified the poor beseecher into immediate silence.
2. spec. A petitioner to the king or his courts.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > plaintiff > petitioner
beseecherc1400
petitioner1503
orator1547
c1400 Petit. Ld. Vesey in Whitaker Hist. Craven (1812) 251 Yor said besecher standeth gretely chargeably to the execucon of..the last wille of, etc.
1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 130 Iugges betwene the seid Bisshop..and your seid besechers.
1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII xxii Youre besechers shall ever pray, etc.
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII vi It shalbe leful to your said besecher.
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