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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adjuration, adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appeal, appealing, begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, call, clamor, cry, devotional, devout, entreating, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, in the dust, invocation, invocatory plea, obsecration, obtestation, on bended knee, plea, pleading, prayer, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, rogation, solemn, suit, suppliant, supplicant, supplication, supplicatory, venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping
Dictionary Results for imploring:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
imploring
    adj 1: begging [syn: beseeching, pleading, imploring]
           [ant: imperative]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Implore \Im*plore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implored; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Imploring.] [L. implorare; pref. im- in + plorare to
   cry aloud. See Deplore.]
   To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray
   to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat;
   to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing
   sought, or the person from whom it is sought.
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         Imploring all the gods that reign above. --Pope.
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         I kneel, and then implore her blessing.  --Shak.

   Syn: To beseech; supplicate; crave; entreat; beg; solicit;
        petition; prey; request; adjure. See Beseech.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Imploring \Im*plor"ing\, a.
   That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Im*plor"ing*ly,
   adv.
   [1913 Webster]

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