imploringness

imploringness

Her eyes held a look of quiet imploringness.

Definition

Noun: The quality or state of being imploring; the characteristic of expressing a desperate, earnest, or pleading request or appeal.

Usage Examples
  • (The pleading quality of her look.)
  • (The desperate earnestness in his tone.)
Advanced Usage
  • "with imploringness": in a manner that shows desperate pleading.
    • She looked at him with such imploringness that he could not refuse. (With a pleading expression.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Imploring (adj): expressing a desperate or earnest plea.

    • His imploring eyes begged for mercy. (His eyes showed a plea.)
  • Implore (v): to beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

    • I implore you to help me. (I beg you earnestly.)
  • Imploringly (adv): in a pleading or begging manner.

    • She looked at him imploringly. (She looked at him with a pleading expression.)
Synonyms
  • Pleadingness: the quality of making an emotional appeal.
  • Entreaty: an earnest or humble request.
  • Supplication: the action of asking or begging for something humbly and earnestly.
Related Idioms
  • "on bended knee": in a position of humble pleading.
    • He asked for her forgiveness on bended knee. (He pleaded humbly.)