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een noted for the solicitous care they exercise in the education of the young.
— The Haskalah Movement in Russia;
• (implore)- to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech;
entreat, ( ; ; - / );
These I implore, adorable princess, with confidence that you will not refuse
me. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete;
• (adjure)- to appeal to or entreat earnestly;
• (beseech)- to beg eagerly for; solicit, ( ; ); But
remember that we do not beseech, we demand! — The Idiot;
• (entreat)- to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg, (
); They began to preach, to remonstrate, to warn, entreat, and
rebuke until their voices sounded like the roar of many waters in the ears of
the people. — William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist;
• (importune)- to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or
persistence, ( ; ; ); At
times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with
emphatic trifles. — Essays — First Series;
• (importune)- urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so,
( ; ; ); Others are importunate, and earnest enough,
like the beggar's appeal for relief, but without much hope of success. —
Religion in Earnest;
• (litany)- a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of
invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number
in succession, ( ); The
ceremony was began by the recital of a kind of litany, containing the life of
Mahomet from his birth to his death. — The Memoirs of Napoleon;
seeker = suitor ~ solicitor : petitioner = supplicant^ supplicate^ supplication
= invocation
• (seeker)- one that seeks; He had sailed from Palos as a seeker after hidden
wealth, hidden knowledge; he returned as teacher, discoverer, benefactor. —
Christopher Columbus;
• (suitor)- Law. a petitioner or plaintiff, ( ); I cannot see any
ground for this interpretation, though it is probable that Tisdall's appearance
as a suitor was sufficiently annoying. — The Journal to Stella;
• a man who courts or woos a woman, (( ) ; );
• (solicitor)- a person who solicits, ( ,
);