as in begs
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
since deists do not believe in a Creator who interferes in human affairs, they generally regard as fruitless any effort to impetrate Him for divine favors
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begs
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Carrie begs Lo to drop it before things get worse.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025 -
Stripped to her underwear and tied to a chair, Evelyn begs for her life as Gein wheels out a corpse, wraps its long-dead fingers around the handle of a hammer, and brings both inanimate objects down on Evelyn’s head.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Impetrates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impetrates. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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