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IMPLORING

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Begging

Synonyms:

beseeching; imploring; pleading

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

adjuratory (earnestly or solemnly entreating)

importunate (expressing persistant and earnest entreaty)

mendicant (practicing beggary)

petitionary (of the nature of or expressing a petition)

precative; precatory (expressing entreaty or supplication)

suppliant; supplicant; supplicatory (humbly entreating)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb implore

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 Context examples: 

He was begging, pleading, imploring for his comrade's life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She sent me a letter then, imploring me to go away, and saying that it would break her heart if any scandal should come upon her husband.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had my arms round Mr. Wickfield, imploring him by everything that I could think of, oftenest of all by his love for Agnes, to calm himself a little.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie backed precipitately into a corner, and put his hands behind him with an imploring gesture.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then, as he turned to leave the room, the captain seized him by the wrist, imploring him, by the memory of their mother, to have mercy upon him; and I loved my master as I saw him drag his sleeve from the grasp of the clutching fingers, and leave the stricken wretch grovelling upon the floor.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I also drew up a note, to be given to any white merchant or captain of a steam-boat whom the Indian could find, imploring them to see that ropes were sent to us, since our lives must depend upon it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sit down on this bench, Watson, until a train for Chiselhurst arrives, and allow me to lay the evidence before you, imploring you in the first instance to dismiss from your mind the idea that anything which the maid or her mistress may have said must necessarily be true.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She dropped on her face, before the imperious figure in the chair, with an imploring effort to clasp the skirt of her dress.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And Laurie folded his hands together with such and imploring gesture, as he spoke in his irresistibly persuasive tone, that it was impossible to frown upon him in spite of his scandalous behavior.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I found myself one of these, frantically imploring a knot of sailors whom I knew, not to let those two lost creatures perish before our eyes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)