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behest
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synonyms: beck ???
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Definition:a command or strongly worded request
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"It would seem your function is to twist truth at the command of your employers, who, in turn, obey the behests of the corporations."
Jack London. The Iron Heel.
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It would have been quite immaterial to me now to have at my behest fifty women returning, at a sign from myself, not from the Trocadéro but from the Indies.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 6]
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I had received no thanks for my other service; and being unwilling to run to and fro at his behest, I replied—‘Nobody is out there but Joseph.’
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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