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imploratory en · ADJ

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  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

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most imploratory Degree=Sup lexicographic
more imploratory Degree=Cmp lexicographic