Expressing entreaty or supplication:
— Precatory overtures.

synonym: precative.

Roget 765: requesting etc. v.; precatory^†; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory^†.    importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.    ... show more