imploration

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noun

The action of imploring; begging, beseeching.

OriginFrench imploration ← Latin implorationem →
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Meanings

nounimploration (countable and uncountable, plural implorations)

plural implorations

  1. countableuncountableThe 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

  1. Latinimplorationem
  2. Frenchimploration
  3. Englishimploration

From French imploration, from Latin implorationem.

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APA

imploration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imploration

MLA

“imploration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imploration. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “imploration,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/imploration.

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