All behest synonyms

noun behest

• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• precept — a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
• direction — the act or an instance of directing.
• instruction — machine instruction
• word — Microsoft Word
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
• injunction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
• request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
• commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• bidding — an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone's bidding)
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
• dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• solicitation — the act of soliciting.