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

Pronunciation

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Noun

imploration f (plural implorations)

1. imploration

Further reading

• “imploration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.