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.)