to ask or beg someone earnestly and desperately for something.
From Latin 'implorare,' a combination of 'in-' (into) and 'plorare' (to cry out). The word literally means 'to cry into,' emphasizing emotional urgency.
Implore contains the root 'plorare' meaning 'to cry'—and throughout literature, people implore with tears. The word itself embeds the emotion it describes, showing how language encodes human desperation.
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