imploration
Urgent heartfelt appeal
Imploration is the act of begging or pleading urgently for something.
It carries more emotional weight than a simple request, suggesting desperation or earnest appeal.
Her imploration for mercy moved even the harshest critics.
The word appears more often in literary or formal contexts than in everyday speech, where people are more likely to say begging or pleading.
Urgent heartfelt request
- beseechingUrgently pleading for something
- appealFormal review request
- petitionFormal written appeal
- requestFormal act of seeking
supplication · adjuration · solicitation · importunity · intercession · exhortation · urging · invocation
Address to deity
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- benedictionFormal spoken blessing
- litanyProlonged repetitive account
devotion · supplication · fervent prayer · absolution · deliverance · mercy · divine aid · prostration
Intense mental suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- despairTotal absence of hope
- urgencyPressing need for action
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
panic · dire straits · extremity · crisis · fear · anxiety · hopelessness · alarm
pleading
Urgent heartfelt request
- beseechingUrgently pleading for something
- appealFormal review request
- petitionFormal written appeal
request · supplication · adjuration · solicitation · importunity · intercession · exhortation · urging · invocation · begging
prayer
Address to deity
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- benedictionFormal spoken blessing
litany · devotion · supplication · fervent prayer · absolution · deliverance · mercy · divine aid · prostration · kneeling
anguish
Intense mental suffering
helplessness · panic · dire straits · extremity · crisis · fear · anxiety · hopelessness · alarm · pressure
- invocationssummoning, calling, call, calling upon, conjuration
- prayersOur Father, morning prayers, Lord's Prayer, daily prayers, evening prayers