imploration

noun

imploration

noun

Etymology From French imploration, from Latin implorationem.

1

The action of imploring; begging, beseeching.

  • Dulled by the burlap, Josiah’s incoherent implorations were a soft, wet mumble.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 230:

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