Meaning

(obsolete, rare) An earnest request, an entreaty..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, rare) An earnest request, an entreaty.
2. (obsolete, rare) A constant and insistent demanding, importunity.

Example Sentences

With candor attend to her efflagitation, / […]

Some men knowing this to bee their prerogative, […] that their Wives are bound by Gods Law to submit to their manly spirits, and riper judgements, may perchance out of their earthlinesse, and intolerable worldly-mindednesse, […], take the advantage and unconscionablely stand off, and refuse to give their consents unto their wives pious efflagitations and intreaties.

Whence then proceeds this strong oppugnance to / My faire proposition, efflagitation?

Into the noisome caverns of the Ghouls; into the dew-gemmed bower of the lady fairies, you have extended your efflagitations.

This temper of solicitation, or more properly efflagitation, amongst his other qualifications, had greatly conduced to procure for him and his children some honourable and lucrative employments and reversions, […]

A laborer's wife was visited fifteen times by people of importance who lived near her in order to induce her to bring over her husband to the Tory cause.[…] Canvassing like this is not the mere suggestion of arguments in favor of the cause represented by the canvasser; it is not even solicitation. It is efflagitation.

Word Forms

• efflagitations
• flagitation

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Use efflagitation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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