Implore

/ɪmˈplɔː/ · verb

Meaning

To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech..

Definitions by Sense

1. To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
2. To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
3. (intransitive) Often followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to express an earnest or urgent plea.
4. (obsolete, rare) An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently; an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.

Example Sentences

And giue me leaue, / And doe not ſay 'tis Superſtition, that / I kneele, and then implore her Bleſſing.

But again, the Publican by his Confeſſion ſhevveth a piece of the higheſt vviſdom that a mortal Man can ſhevv; becauſe by ſo doing, he engageth as vvell as imploreth the Grace and Mercy of God to ſave him.

My daily bread is litt'rally implor'd, / I have no barns nor granaries to hoard; […]

Puling, and in-voiced, rearing up thy deteſted head, in vain imploreſt thou my mercy, vvho, in thy day, haſt ſhevved me ſo little!

[S]he vvas ſeveral times upon the point of throvving herſelf at her feet, and imploring her pity and protection.

Then, Matilda, […] witnessed thy despair, received a letter from the hands of Herminia, wherein thou imploredst my assistance; that stranger is an impostor?

The man told his story with many tears, and produced a letter written in the king's hand, and addressed to no particular person, but imploring the aid of all good Englishmen.

Politically authoritative history, which discloses the constitutive ground and situation in which human beings find themselves, implores that this action be taken and not that, in order that the truth of the partially revealed and concealed God/nature not be violated.

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• imploring
• implored
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