Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-PLORE'
IM-PLORE', v.t. [Fr. implorer; Sp. implorar; It. implorare; L. imploro; in and ploro, to cry out.]
- To call upon or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat; as, to implore the forgiveness of sins; to implore mercy. Imploring all the gods that reign above. Pope.
- To ask earnestly; to beg.
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