English-Thai Dictionary
obsecration
N การขอร้อง อ้อนวอน
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
OBSECRATION
n. 1. Intreaty; supplication.
2. A figure of rhetoric, in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
OBSECRATION
Ob "se *cra "tion, n. Etym: [L. obsecratio: cf. F. obsecration. ]
1. The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with "By. " Bp. Stillingfeet. Shipley.
2. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.
New American Oxford Dictionary
obsecration
ob se cra tion |ˌäbsəˈkrāSHən ˌɑbsəˈkreɪʃən | ▶noun rare earnest pleading or supplication. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin obsecratio (n- ), from obsecrare ‘entreat, ’ based on sacer, sacr- ‘sacred. ’
Oxford Dictionary
obsecration
obsecration |ˌɒbsɪˈkreɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] rare earnest pleading or supplication. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin obsecratio (n- ), from obsecrare ‘entreat ’, based on sacer, sacr- ‘sacred ’.
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