Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make an earnest request of (someone). synonym: beg.
- intransitive verb To ask for earnestly; petition for.
- intransitive verb Archaic To deal with; treat.
- intransitive verb To make an earnest request or petition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Entreaty; prayer.
- To treat, use, or manage; deal with; act toward.
- To partake of; enjoy.
- To ask earnestly; beseech; petition with urgency; supplicate; solicit pressingly; importune.
- To prevail on by prayer or solicitation; persuade or cause to yield by entreaty.
- Synonyms Ask, Request, Beg, etc. See
ask . See list underbeseech . - To treat of something; discourse.
- To treat with another or others; negotiate.
- To make an earnest petition or request.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Entreaty.
- intransitive verb obsolete To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
- intransitive verb To make an earnest petition or request.
- transitive verb obsolete To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
- transitive verb To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
- transitive verb To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
- transitive verb obsolete To invite; to entertain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
entreaty . - verb To
treat , orconduct toward ; todeal with; touse . - verb To treat with, or in
respect to, a thingdesired ;hence , to askearnestly ; tobeseech ; topetition orpray withurgency ; tosupplicate ; toimportune . - verb To beseech or supplicate successfully; to
prevail upon by prayer orsolicitation ; topersuade . - verb To
invite ; toentertain . - verb To treat or
discourse ; hence, toenter intonegotiations , as for a treaty. - verb To
make anearnest petition orrequest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb ask for or request earnestly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Do not therefore, I again entreat you, my dear friend, be uneasy.
The Old Manor House 1793
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‘Were it not an intrusion, sire, I would fain entreat a moment's audience. '
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Why did they have to "entreat" him, if he had come all the way from Boston for that purpose?
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838
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Pastor Reid is a gifted preacher whose ability to alternately command like a prophet and entreat like a parent plays off the emotion and Christian devotion of his flock with near-perfect pitch.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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This I most earnestly entreat, and I know you will comply.
Chapter 5 2010
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When the Danaides reach Argos, they entreat King Pelasgus to protect them.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Not that it was Daylight's way abjectly to beg and entreat.
Chapter XX 2010
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Now, I entreat you to begin your own personal journey into this Historical Occasion.
How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile) Vincent Eaton 2012
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He knew that he would pray, and beg, and entreat, even as Big Ivan and the others that had gone before.
Lost Face 2010
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My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again.
Chapter 5 2010
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