behest

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noun/bɪˈhɛst//biˈhɛst//bɪˈhest/

1
A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of and at one's behest.
- Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth, Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt: […]
- to do his master's high behest
2
A vow; a promise.obsolete
- c. 1440, Markaryte Paston, letter to John Paston The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made.

verb/bɪˈhɛst//biˈhɛst//bɪˈhest/

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