Behest is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BEHEST in dictionary:

VERB:
• To vow.
NOUN:
• a command
• order or earnest request
• That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
• A vow; a promise.
• an authoritative command or request
• a person's orders or command

Words related to BEHEST

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Words that contain BEHEST

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How to use BEHEST in a sentence

• Human sacrifice offered to the Lord of life and death at His own behest, is something that did not seem wicked and inconceivable to Abraham.
• It was very hard that this little interval of life, these stray gleams of gladness should be denied to the poor old creature, at the behest of James Steadman.
• They came eagerly to hear him, they reflected his enthusiasm at his behest, they wept and praised God.
• The Polish Maria Wodzinska was his next flame, and he wished to marry her, but he, who had the salons of Paris at his princely behest, could not hold this nineteen-year-old girl.
• She thought it had fluttered out of my window, and went down smilingly to fulfil my behest.
• It is Thine to command, and all sovereignty belongeth to Thee, and the realm of might boweth before Thy behest.
• They found the cab of the 1012 deserted, with the steam in the huge boiler singing softly at the behest of the banked fire.
• The young man hastened full of joy to the king and told him that his behest was fulfilled, and, whether the king liked it or not, he had to keep his word and let his daughter go.
• I asked of him an evil act, but he proved continent, but if he do not my behest he verily shall be imprisoned, and verily shall be of those brought low.
• For the doings of men are all dependent upon Thy good-pleasure, and are conditioned by Thy behest.
• Thou art He through Whom the ensign “Praiseworthy art Thou in Thy works” hath been lifted up, and the standard “Obeyed art Thou in Thy behest” hath been unfurled.
• The day, however, is approaching when the potentialities of so great a favor will, by virtue of His behest, be manifested unto men.
• I am willing to live and suffer, if it is His behest.
• The saddened bird, forced to build its shelter at the behest of nature in the multiplication of the species repeats its anxious labors.
• But thrice that sum shall be awarded thee so soon as thou shalt have fulfilled our behest.
• They came protesting they would henceforth be our slaves, ready, in all things, to obey our slightest behest.
• At the behest of Joshua he holds the sun and the moon in their courses above the vale of Ajalon so that there will be more time for the destruction of the Philistines.
• Beatrice turned her shoulder toward him, and looked at Sir Redmond, who was surreptitiously fishing for certain articles beside the rear wheel, at the whispered behest of Mrs.
• Know thou, moreover, that He it is Who hath by His own behest, created all that is in the heavens and all that is on the earth.
• He maketh victorious whomsoever He pleaseth, through the potency of His behest.
• For the doings of men are all dependent upon Thy good pleasure, and are conditioned by Thy behest.
• For a couple of centuries, great gates have been swinging throughout the East at the behest of frigates and armed merchantmen.
• Once or twice he lifted his own arm with an alert gesture in imitative energy, and looked over his shoulder at his squat little image, to note its obedience to his behest.
• And urged by the king, Bhima made up his mind reluctantly, for he could not openly disobey the royal behest.
• Desiderius and his army entered Rome at the behest of the pope, who celebrated Mass before the king in S.
• One of those relatives, very common in fiction, and not altogether unknown in real life, finally let go of her money at the behest of her impatient undertaker.
• She made way for Kieff, though not consciously at his behest, and there followed a dreadful struggling upon which she could not look.
• But Lentulus, at whose behest the Senate had been convened, and who was to act as its president, had not come.
• Well, O Marsil, have I done thy behest to the mighty Christian King.
• She felt that he was her natural protector in this strange Chicago to which she had come at his behest and continually resented any imputation of his motives.
• Thus stimulated to the adventure, he addressed himself to perform her behest.
• But to serve the behest of party in a double form, it was crushed.

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