efflagitation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some men knowing this to bee their prerogative, […] that their Wives are bound by Gods Law to submit to their manly spirits, and riper judgements, may perchance out of their earthlinesse, and intolerable worldly-mindednesse, […], take the advantage and unconscionablely stand off, and refuse to give their consents unto their wives pious efflagitations and intreaties."
- "Whence then proceeds this strong oppugnance to / My faire proposition, efflagitation?"
- "With candor attend to her efflagitation, / […]"
- "Into the noisome caverns of the Ghouls; into the dew-gemmed bower of the lady fairies, you have extended your efflagitations."
- "This temper of solicitation, or more properly efflagitation, amongst his other qualifications, had greatly conduced to procure for him and his children some honourable and lucrative employments and reversions, […]"
- "A laborer's wife was visited fifteen times by people of importance who lived near her in order to induce her to bring over her husband to the Tory cause.[…] Canvassing like this is not the mere suggestion of arguments in favor of the cause represented by the canvasser; it is not even solicitation. It is efflagitation."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin efflāgitātiō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: efflāgitātiō