IMPLORINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imploringly mean? 

• IMPLORINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPLORINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a beseeching manner

  Familiarity information: IMPLORINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPLORINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a beseeching manner

Synonyms:

beseechingly; entreatingly; imploringly; importunately; pleadingly

Context example:

'You must help me,' she said imploringly

 Context examples 

Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty face.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

So he patiently broke twig after twig till he had made a little hole through which he peeped, saying imploringly, 'Let me in! Let me in!'

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My fears, however, were groundless, for he held up his two hands imploringly, and made his petition in a moving manner.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That, as the Doctor moved his head, his wife dropped down on one knee at his feet, and, with her hands imploringly lifted, fixed upon his face the memorable look I had never forgotten.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie went by in the afternoon, and seeing Meg at the window, seemed suddenly possessed with a melodramatic fit, for he fell down on one knee in the snow, beat his breast, tore his hair, and clasped his hands imploringly, as if begging some boon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But there came a time when during the fever fits she began to talk in a hoarse, broken voice, to play on the coverlet as if on her beloved little piano, and try to sing with a throat so swollen that there was no music left, a time when she did not know the familiar faces around her, but addressed them by wrong names, and called imploringly for her mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)