Word Meanings - IMPLORATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of imploring; earnest supplication. Bp. Hall.

IMPLORATORY
Supplicatory; entreating. Carlyle.
IMPLORING
That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Im*plor"ing*ly, adv.
EARNEST
Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness. Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest. Sir P. Sidney. And given in earnest what I begged in jest. Shak. In earnest, serious; seriously; not in jest; earnestly.
SUPPLICATION
A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods. Syn. -- Entreaty; petition; solicitation; craving. (more info) 1. The act of supplicating; humble
IMPLORER
One who implores.
EARNESTLY
In an earnest manner.
IMPLORE
To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought. Imploring all the
IMPLORATION
The act of imploring; earnest supplication. Bp. Hall.
IMPLORATOR
One who implores. Mere implorators of unholy suits. Shak.
EARNESTNESS
The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.
EARNESTFUL
Serious. Chaucer.
OVEREARNEST
Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.