▪ I. imˈploring, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
Supplication, beseeching.
| 1611 Cotgr., Imploration, an imploring,..beseeching. 1654–66 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa (1676) 513, I made many pressing implorings to suspend a little longer my return. 1896 in Daily News 27 May 7/4 We knelt at the Throne of the King of Kings with humble and earnest imploring. |
▪ II. imˈploring, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That implores or supplicates.
| 1654–66 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa (1676) 197 The fair Sophonisba, not as a Tryumphant Mistris, but an imploring Prisoner. 1771 Goldsm. Hist. Eng. I. 307 He threw himself in the most imploring manner upon his knees before his uncle. 1829 Southey All for Love vi. xxix, His imploring eye Bespake compassion. 1866 G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxvi. (1878) 452 She gave him one imploring look. |
Hence imˈploringly adv., in an imploring or supplicating way; imˈploringness, imploring quality.
| 1810 Southey Kehama x. ix, She stretch'd her hands imploringly. 1863 Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney xxxvi. 334 Threading her way with a silent imploringness among the throng. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxv, His voice took an affectionate imploringness. 1881 H. James Portr. Lady xxxvii, ‘What on earth has he done to her?’ he asked again imploringly. |