Meanings
comparative more imploratory · superlative most imploratory
- rareEntreating, supplicatory.
On the 21st of March goes off that long exculpatory imploratory Letter: it is the first Letter that went off from Cardinal to Queen[.]
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace
Origin
- Latinimplōrātus
- Englishimploratory
From Latin implōrātus + English -atory (suffix forming adjectives of, relating to, or connected with [the specified thing]). Implōrātus is the perfect passive participle of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”): see further at implore.
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