implore

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She implored me--she used that word, 'implore'--to fly from her, to leave her to her fate, to endeavour to find happiness with some one else Well But I saw her heart was breaking What o' that Much of that, uncle.

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  1. transitive verb To appeal to in supplication; beseech: implored the tribunal to have mercy.
  2. transitive verb To beg for urgently; entreat.
  3. intransitive verb To make an earnest appeal. See Synonyms at beg.

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  • Make him tell you,--implore him to tell you The count took the handkerchief, saying, "It is an admirable suggestion of yours, my dear Bertha. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
  • Hector Garret is not the man to beg and implore, and wait patiently for a score of years. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
  • "Let her rip, Miss," he would implore--"Don't be beat by them Frenchies." —  Fanny Goes to War
  • She implored me--she used that word, 'implore'--to fly from her, to leave her to her fate, to endeavour to find happiness with some one else Well But I saw her heart was breaking What o' that Much of that, uncle. —  Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood
  • This beautiful and not unpampered lady was accustomed to see her commands received as an honour; and when she condescended to implore, the effect usually was to produce a blissful and deprecatory confusion in the person besought. —  The Lion's Share
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implore:   imploring ·  implored ·  implores
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin implōrāre : in-, toward; see in-2 + plōrāre, to weep.

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  1. Formerly also emplore; = French implorer = Spanish Portuguese implorar = Italian implorare, from Latin implorare, inplorare, invoke with tears, beseech, from in, in, on, upon, + plorare, cry out, weep. Cf. deplore.
  2. from implore, v.
 

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