imploratory

English

Etymology

implore +‎ -atory

Adjective

imploratory (comparative more imploratory, superlative most imploratory)

  1. supplicatory; entreating
    • 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[.]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for imploratory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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