imploratory

English

Etymology

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.

Adjective

imploratory (comparative more imploratory, superlative most imploratory)

1. (rare) Entreating, supplicatory.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace:

     On the 21st of March goes off that long exculpatory imploratory Letter: it is the first Letter that went off from Cardinal to Queen[.]

References

• “imploratory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.