Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who entreats or asks earnestly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
entreats orbeseeches .
Etymologies
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entreat + -er
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Examples
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It suited Ray, too, that the Fords were five years younger than himself, as if, Ford wrote, “he so wanted time given back to him… that he willingly became my age and at least, when it suited him, assumed my state of being an entreater to the literary world.”
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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