Imploring

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Imploring \Im*plor"ing\, a.
     That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- {Im*plor"ing*ly},
     adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Implore \Im*plore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Implored}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Imploring}.] [L. implorare; pref. im- in + plorare to
     cry aloud. See {Deplore}.]
     To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray
     to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat;
     to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing
     sought, or the person from whom it is sought.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Imploring all the gods that reign above. --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I kneel, and then implore her blessing.  --Shak.
  
     Syn: To beseech; supplicate; crave; entreat; beg; solicit;
          petition; prey; request; adjure. See {Beseech}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  imploring
       adj : expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened
             look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand
             for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in
             her voice" [syn: {appealing}, {importunate}, {pleading}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "imploring":
     adjuration, adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appeal, appealing,
     begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, call, clamor, cry,
     devotional, devout, entreating, entreaty, imploration, imprecation,
     in the dust, invocation, invocatory plea, obsecration, obtestation,
     on bended knee, plea, pleading, prayer, prayerful, precative,
     precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, rogation,
     solemn, suit, suppliant, supplicant, supplication, supplicatory,
     venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping