entreaty

[ en-tree-tee ]
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noun,plural en·treat·ies.
  1. earnest request or petition; supplication.

Origin of entreaty

1
First recorded in 1515–25; entreat + -y3

Other words for entreaty

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How to use entreaty in a sentence

  • It throws thirteen colonies out of the royal protection, and makes us independent in spite of supplications and entreaties.

  • He did not say good night until she had become supple to his gentle, seductive entreaties.

  • At last Jane, influenced by his entreaties, consented that he should make proposals to her father.

  • Henriette, finding all her entreaties in vain, sadly bade her adieu, and was never permitted to see her more.

  • But the very idea of sharing a peril with him would have been enough to make her deaf to her loved one's entreaties.

    Urania | Camille Flammarion

British Dictionary definitions for entreaty

entreaty

/ (ɪnˈtriːtɪ) /


nounplural -treaties
  1. an earnest request or petition; supplication; plea

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