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obsecration
noun
[ ˌɒbsɪˈkreɪʃ(ə)n ]
• earnest pleading or supplication.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin obsecratio(n- ), from obsecrare ‘entreat’, based on sacer, sacr- ‘sacred’.
