entreat
verb (used with object)
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg.
entreatment
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a word derived from
entreat.
Example Sentences
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It gives me much pleasure to hear of Mr. Hobhouse's Pg 109and Mr. Merivale's good entreatment by the journals you mention.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Hate him as I once did, I now love him, by reason of his present entreatment of thee.
From The Decameron, Volume II by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
And all this was honest enough; for it was the gentle entreatment of a stranger.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
Thus far I had choked down my swelling rage at her faithlessness, her vanity, her despiteful entreatment of my master's plight.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
Further, as a Castilian gentleman, do you agree with the author’s most despiteful entreatment of that sweet sex for whose sake all romances were written?
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
