Implore vs Demand - What's the difference?
implore | demand | Related terms |
To beg urgently or earnestly.
* Shakespeare
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
* Alexander Pope
The desire to purchase goods and services.
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A need.
A claim for something.
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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
A requirement.
An urgent request.
An order.
(electricity supply) A measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
To request forcefully.
To claim a right to something.
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, title= To ask forcefully for information.
To require of someone.
(legal) To issue a summons to court.
Implore is a related term of demand.
As verbs the difference between implore and demand
is that implore is while demand is to request forcefully.As a noun demand is
the desire to purchase goods and services.implore
English
Verb
(implor)- I kneel, and then implore her blessing.
- Imploring all the gods that reign above.
Synonyms
* entreatdemand
English
Alternative forms
* demaund, demaunde (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Michael Sivak
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Usage notes
One can also make demands on someone. * See for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.Synonyms
* (a requirement) impositionDerived terms
* demand-driven * in demand * on demandVerb
(en verb)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}