Implore vs Imply - What's the difference?
implore | imply |
To beg urgently or earnestly.
* Shakespeare
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
* Alexander Pope
(of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
(of a person) to suggest by logical inference
(of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
(archaic) to enfold, entangle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
As verbs the difference between implore and imply
is that implore is while imply is (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.implore
English
Verb
(implor)- I kneel, and then implore her blessing.
- Imploring all the gods that reign above.
Synonyms
* entreatimply
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal
- When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown
- What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
- And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes .
