Implore

Quick meaning: Implore is a verb meaning To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• implores
• imploring
• implored
• implorest
• imploredst
• imploreth

Synonyms for implore

Depending on context, synonyms include beg, pray.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beg, pray, beseech, petition, plead, appeal.

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