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Implore vs Suppliant - What's the difference?

implore | suppliant |

As verbs the difference between implore and suppliant

is that implore is while suppliant is .

As an adjective suppliant is

entreating with humility or suppliant can be , begging, pleading, imploring.

As a noun suppliant is

one who pleads or requests earnestly or suppliant can be supplicant.

implore

English

Verb

(implor)
  • To beg urgently or earnestly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I kneel, and then implore her blessing.
  • To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Imploring all the gods that reign above.

    Synonyms

    * entreat

    suppliant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entreating with humility.
  • * Milton
    • to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who pleads or requests earnestly.
  • * 1963': I touch your beard as a '''suppliant , embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. — Euripides, ''Medea , trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)

    • Synonyms

    * beseecher, petitioner, supplicant

    Related terms

    * suppliance * suppliantly * supplicant * supplicate * supplicatingly * supplication * supplicator * supplicatory (trans-bottom) ----