- beg
- beg, entreat, beseech, implore, supplicate, adjure, importune mean to ask or request urgently.Beg suggests ear-nestness or insistence especially in asking a favor{
why, boy, before I left, you were constantly begging to see Town— Meredith
}Entreat implies an attempt to persuade or to overcome resistance in another especially by ingratiating oneself{he was accustomed to command, not to entreat— Gather
}Beseech implies great eagerness and often anxiety or solicitude{she besought him, for his soul's sake, to speak the truth— Kipling
}Implore, often used interchangeably with beseech, at times suggests even greater urgency in the plea or more manifest anguish{the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy— Dickens
}Supplicate adds to entreat the suggestion of fervent prayer or of a prayerful attitude{invite, entreat, supplicate them to accompany you— Chesterfield
}{fall on his knees and supplicate the God of his fathers— Terrien
}Adjure implies an injunction as well as a plea and is strengthened by the expressed or implied invocation of a sense of responsibility or duty or of something sacred{I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ— Mt 26:63
}It may sometimes suggest little more than urgency or peremptoriness{so E company... doubled for the dear life, and in the rear toiled the perspiring sergeant, adjuring it to double yet faster— Kipling
}Importune commonly suggests repeated attempts to break down resistance and often connotes annoying pertinacity{a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church— Emerson
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New Dictionary of Synonyms. 2014.
