imploring

4 definitions found

imploring - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Imploring \Im*plor"ing\, a.
     That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Im*plor"ing*ly,
     adv.
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  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.
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           Imploring all the gods that reign above. --Pope.
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           I kneel, and then implore her blessing.  --Shak.
  
     Syn: To beseech; supplicate; crave; entreat; beg; solicit;
          petition; prey; request; adjure. See Beseech.
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imploring - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  imploring
      adj 1: begging [syn: beseeching, pleading, imploring]
             [ant: imperative]

imploring - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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