imploration

English

Etymology

From French imploration, from Latin implorationem.

Noun

imploration (countable and uncountable, plural implorations)

  1. The action of imploring; begging, beseeching.
    • 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 230:
      Dulled by the burlap, Josiah’s incoherent implorations were a soft, wet mumble.

French

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Noun

imploration f (plural implorations)

  1. imploration

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