implore

verb

to ask, beg

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪmˈplɔː/ / /ɪmˈploɹ/ / /ɪmˈploə/

noun

Etymology: PIE word *h₁én The verb is borrowed from Middle French implorer (modern French implorer (“to beg, plead, implore”)), or directly from its etymon Latin implōrāre, the present active infinitive of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”), from im- (a variant of in- (intensifying prefix)) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain, deplore, lament”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). The noun is derived from the verb.

An act of begging or pleading earnestly or urgently; an entreaty, an imploration or imploring, a plea.
“Suddenly out of his delightfull dreame / The man avvoke, and vvould haue queſtiond more; / But he vvould not endure that vvofull theame / For to dilate at large, but vrged ſore / VVith percing vvordes, and pittifull implore, / Him haſty to ariſe.”

verb

To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
“And giue me leaue, / And doe not ſay 'tis Superſtition, that / I kneele, and then implore her Bleſſing.”
“But again, the Publican by his Confeſſion ſhevveth a piece of the higheſt vviſdom that a mortal Man can ſhevv; becauſe by ſo doing, he engageth as vvell as imploreth the Grace and Mercy of God to ſave him.”
To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
“Acquaint her vvith the danger of my ſtate, / Implore her, in my voice, that ſhe make friends / To the ſtrict deputie: […]”
“And novv they ſhip their oars, and crovvn vvith vvine / The holy Goblet to the povv'rs divine: / Imploring all the Gods that reign above, / But chief, the blue-ey'd Progeny of Jove.”
Often followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to express an earnest or urgent plea.
“That fortnight Rochester passed in intriguing and imploring.”
“"Do not let me think of them too often, too much, too fondly," I implored; […]”