Implore vs Abjure - What's the difference?
implore | abjure |
To beg urgently or earnestly.
* Shakespeare
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
* Alexander Pope
To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.
(transitive, obsolete, historical) To cause one to renounce or recant.
To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim.
* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
To abstain from; to avoid; to shun.
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As verbs the difference between implore and abjure
is that implore is while abjure is .implore
English
Verb
(implor)- I kneel, and then implore her blessing.
- Imploring all the gods that reign above.
Synonyms
* entreatabjure
English
Verb
(abjur)- To abjure allegiance to a prince.
- To abjure the realm (to swear to abandon it forever).
- To abjure errors.
- But this rough magic I here abjure [...]
