Definitions for behests

behests be·hest

Spelling: [bih-hest]
IPA: /bɪˈhɛst/

Behests is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in behests (beehsst).

Definitions for behests

noun

  1. a command or directive.
  2. an earnest or strongly worded request.

Origin of behests

before 1000; Middle English bihest(e), Old English behǣs promise. See be-, hest

Examples for behests

The following day, Magnitsky was arrested at the behest of Lt. Col. Kuznetsov.

And if ye give me my life, I will be your man and do your behest.'

Such is the behest of Providence; there are compulsions linked to treason.

To have died at your behest at the instant would have been as nothing.

"I'm no trunk to be shipped hither and thither at someone's behest," I said.

Or the time he ran and hid—at his mother's behest—during the Battle of the Blackwater.

The pair were working at the behest of a human-rights organization called the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD).

That was easily done; but what should be done as to the other behest?

Jackson declined to comment on the case, saying it was at the behest of his lawyer.

I explained I was in the country at the behest of the Department of State, as a kind of cultural ambassador.

Word Value for behests
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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