noun
- plural of behest; authoritative commands or urgent requests
Usage: formal
Examples
- The servants carried out their master’s behests without question.
- She fulfilled all the committee’s behests before the deadline.
- The king’s behests were delivered throughout the kingdom.
- At his father’s behests, he changed his career path.
- The organization operated at the behests of its wealthy donors.
- Multiple behests arrived from headquarters that morning.