imploring

English

Adjective

imploring (comparative more imploring, superlative most imploring)

  1. Earnestly asking for something.
    an imploring look

Derived terms

Verb

imploring

  1. present participle and gerund of implore

Noun

imploring (plural implorings)

  1. The act of one who implores; imploration.
    • 1997, Edward Wasiolek, Tolstoy's Major Fiction, page 198:
      But on the night that Nekhludov seduces Maslova, he forces his way past doors, implorings, and physical resistance.
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