imploring

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

imploring
    adj 1: begging [syn: {beseeching}, {pleading}, {imploring}]
           [ant: {imperative}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Imploring \Im*plor"ing\, a.
   That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- {Im*plor"ing*ly},
   adv.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Implore \Im*plore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Implored}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Imploring}.] [L. implorare; pref. im- in + plorare to
   cry aloud. See {Deplore}.]
   To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray
   to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat;
   to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing
   sought, or the person from whom it is sought.
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         Imploring all the gods that reign above. --Pope.
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         I kneel, and then implore her blessing.  --Shak.

   Syn: To beseech; supplicate; crave; entreat; beg; solicit;
        petition; prey; request; adjure. See {Beseech}.
        [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "imploring":
      adjuration, adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appeal, appealing,
      begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, call, clamor, cry,
      devotional, devout, entreating, entreaty, imploration, imprecation,
      in the dust, invocation, invocatory plea, obsecration, obtestation,
      on bended knee, plea, pleading, prayer, prayerful, precative,
      precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, rogation,
      solemn, suit, suppliant, supplicant, supplication, supplicatory,
      venerational, venerative, worshipful, worshiping