IMPLORING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imploring mean? 

• IMPLORING (adjective)
  The adjective IMPLORING has 1 sense:

1. begging

  Familiarity information: IMPLORING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPLORING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Begging

Synonyms:

beseeching; imploring; pleading

Similar:

adjuratory (earnestly or solemnly entreating)

importunate (expressing persistant and earnest entreaty)

mendicant (practicing beggary)

petitionary (of the nature of or expressing a petition)

precative; precatory (expressing entreaty or supplication)

suppliant; supplicant; supplicatory (humbly entreating)

 Context examples 

If he shows his face near it, mine assumes an imploring and submissive expression.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I tried to cheer him up by wire, and he sent me one in reply, imploring me to do all I could.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, prostrate upon their faces, lay the little red figures of the four surviving Indians, trembling with fear of us and yet imploring our protection.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy started, and put both hands behind her, turning on him an imploring look which pleaded for her better than the words she could not utter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He went on his knees to me, imploring me to spare him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram from the major, imploring me to come at once.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The reaction came in excessive pallor as she turned imploring eyes on me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day, however, when the autumn was far advanced and the vacation drawing to a close, I received a telegram from my friend imploring me to return to Donnithorpe, and saying that he was in great need of my advice and assistance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was preparing for her ninth lying-in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and imploring their countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not conceal how important she felt they might be to the future maintenance of the eight already in being.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)