Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of imploring; earnest supplication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of imploring; earnest supplication.
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- noun The action of
imploring ;begging ,beseeching .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That he heeded not the imploration of his sovereign's future wife and smote her son, Alarbus, too?
Titus, I 2009
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Uhl's imploration sounds eerily like the battle-cries of another, more notorious religious radical: Osama bin-Laden.
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It was in response to this most ardent and fruitful imploration that Sri Aurobindo gave the Gayatri Mantra.
Woe to a nation that does not listen to the voice of its divine Yogi-Rishi Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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It was in response to this most ardent and fruitful imploration that Sri Aurobindo gave the Gayatri Mantra.
Archive 2007-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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One desperate imploration to Fred: PLEASE don't reference the recent spate of ghastly retcons, like Illuminati, or the depressing/crappy Wolverine Origins stuff, or Romulus, or whatever here.
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To our mind Justice Kennedy's heartfelt imploration is more persuasive than Justice Ginsburg's sterile conception of womanhood.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives James Taranto 2007
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Most of the time the imploration was wasted on deaf ears.
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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Lifting his face, he encircled the watchers with a gaze at once of imploration and of command.
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Will the same tune do as well for a dance as for a prayer, for a moonlight serenade as for an imploration of Divine mercy?
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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She sat by him still, however, and poured out sentence after sentence of question, insistence, imploration, and pity, eliciting no answer at all.
The Rose-Garden Husband Margaret Widdemer 1931
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