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imploratory

imploratory adjective: entreating, supplicatory.

Adjective

imploratory (comparative more imploratory, superlative most imploratory)

  1. (rare) Entreating, supplicatory.
    • On the 21st of March goes off that long exculpatory imploratory Letter: it is the first Letter that went off from Cardinal to Queen[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, The Diamond Necklace

Forms of imploratory

comparativemore imploratory
superlativemost imploratory

Origin of imploratory

From Latin implōrātus + English -atory (suffix forming adjectives of, relating to, or connected with [the specified thing]). Implōrātus is the perfect passive participle of implōrō (“to beseech, entreat, implore; to appeal to, pray to”): see further at implore.

Questions about imploratory

What does imploratory mean?
Imploratory means entreating, supplicatory.
What part of speech is imploratory?
Imploratory is an adjective.

Words near imploratory in the dictionary

  1. implodes
  2. imploding
  3. imploration
  4. implorations
  5. implorators
  6. imploratory
  7. implore
  8. implored
  9. imploredst
  10. implorer
  11. implorers

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