Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an entreating manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an entreating manner.
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- adverb In an
entreating manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a beseeching manner
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Examples
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He called entreatingly to be released, and made rapid and incoherent promises of important information, mingled with affected pleasantry at their conceit, which he would hardly admit to himself could mean anything so dreadful as it seemed.
The Spy James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Standing up, I looked entreatingly to my neighbor, ready to follow her around like a lost puppy.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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Standing up, I looked entreatingly to my neighbor, ready to follow her around like a lost puppy.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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And then, entreatingly, full of feeling: Swim back to me.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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Standing up, I looked entreatingly to my neighbor, ready to follow her around like a lost puppy.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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And then, entreatingly, full of feeling: Swim back to me.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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Standing up, I looked entreatingly to my neighbor, ready to follow her around like a lost puppy.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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Standing up, I looked entreatingly to my neighbor, ready to follow her around like a lost puppy.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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Standing up, I looked entreatingly to my neighbor, ready to follow her around like a lost puppy.
Haven Kristi Cook 2011
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I kissed his foot and he held out his hand; then raising my eyes, which were filled with tears, I said entreatingly: "Holy Father, I have a great favour to ask you."
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