efflagitation means an earnest request, an entreaty. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
Why this word is great
EFFLAGITATION — [Noun] An earnest entreaty or a persistent, insistent demand. From the Latin efflāgitātiō, from efflāgitāre ("to demand earnestly"), from ex- ("out, thoroughly") + flāgitāre ("to demand, entreat"). Unlike a deferential entreaty or a vexatious importunity, efflagitation is a rhetorical siege, a sustained and formal pressure upon the will. It is the unrelenting rhythm of a beggar’s palm against the cathedral door, the ghost of Cato's daily pronouncement in the Roman Senate, and the quiet, repeated question of a child who has been told ‘maybe’—a demand that measures its urgency by the silence it seeks to overcome.
noun
- An earnest request, an entreaty.“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.”
- A constant and insistent demanding, importunity.“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, […]”