implore
IPA: ɪmpɫˈɔr
noun
- (obsolete, rare) An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently; an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.
verb
- (transitive)
- To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
- To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
- (intransitive) Often followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to express an earnest or urgent plea.
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Examples of "implore" in Sentences
- The letter I send this year will again implore you.
- I would again implore ... not to let this opportunity pass.
- Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night.
- I send you ten shillings for pocket-money, and again implore you to let Mrs. Bax have a little rest and peace.
- I implore you, in fact '(yes, that word,' implore 'was uttered!),' to tell me the whole truth, without mincing matters.
- She implored me -- she used the word 'implore' -- to fly from her, to leave her to her fate, to endeavour to find happiness with some one else. "
- Besides, if we can obtain from them even this admission, that those who are not yet baptized implore the aid of the saviour's grace, this will indeed be no small matter against that false defense of nature, as being sufficient for itself, and of the power of free will.
- When by the next morning he had slept off his debauch, and came round to recollection of his enormities, his penitence knew no bounds; he would prostrate himself in the Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night.
- While Astro Coast may include sunny tunes like "Take It Easy" and "Floating Vibes" (songs that sound exactly like their titles implore), you'll also find harrowing, existential episodes like "Harmonix," where lead singer John Paul Pitts, swathed in thick reverb and echo, sings, "I won't wait around for the grass to grow back now."
- It requested the President to appoint a day for humiliation and prayer and to ask the people to convene at their usual places of worship in order that they may confess and repent of their manifold sins, implore the compassion and forgiveness of the Almighty, that, if consistent with his will the existing rebellion may be speedily suppressed and implore him as the supreme ruler of the world not to destroy us as a people.
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