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Implore   /ɪmplˈɔr/   Listen
Implore

verb
(past & past part. implored; pres. part. imploring)
1.
Call upon in supplication; entreat.  Synonyms: beg, pray.






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"Implore" Quotes from Famous Books



... trembling with emotion, "if you don't want me to swim to the shore, let a boat be lowered. Oh, my Lord, I implore you to let me ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne

... he replied. "What do I do? I shall be delighted to hear. I've been asking myself that question for years. What do I do? Go on, I implore you." ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs

... said the queen. "Instituted by me, by what right does it act without me? No matter, I am waiting for this message: I suppose it is a petition to implore my mercy for the men who have dared to reach to a power that I hold only ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... case.[13] Considering that every European gentleman they meet is more or less a surgeon, or hoping to find him so, people who are afflicted, or have children afflicted, with any kind of malformation, or malorganization, flock round them [sic] wherever they go, and implore their aid; but implore in vain, for, when they do happen to fall in with a surgeon, he is a mere passer-by, without the means or the time to afford relief. In travelling over India there is nothing which distresses ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... her own chamber, where to her great surprise, she found her uncle in close conversation with her grandmother, whose face told the pain his words were inflicting. 'Lena's first impulse was to fall at his feet and implore his protection, but he prevented her by immediately leaving ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes


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