imploration

The action of imploring; begging, beseeching.

Noun

  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:

Origin

From French imploration, from Latin implorationem.

Forms

implorations