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• a variation of entreat.

intreat

American  

[in-treet] / ɪnˈtrit /

verb (used with or without object)

1. an archaic variant of entreat.

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intreat British  

/ ɪnˈtriːt /

verb

1. an archaic spelling of entreat

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Other Word Forms

• intreatment
  noun
• intreatingly
  adverb

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Example Sentences

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intreat

Suffer me to avoid destruction, I intreat you, by our former tenderest affection, and by our common misfortune.

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle

Lastly, I intreat him to keep his purse, I give him my counsell gratis, confessing him to be more then my match, and that I am very loath to fall into his hands.

From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward

Let me then intreat you, my dear girl," said Miss Delwin, "to exert yourself to appear as usual.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

I intreat you, Sir, said she, to prevail with the Queen your Daughter to honour my Daughter and all my Family with her Favour.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

Now to account for this seeming Partiality, I have the following Points to offer; and I intreat my Readers to attend particularly to them.

From An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland, Who, by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property, Their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, Are the Ablest to Judge, and the Fittest to Decide, Whether a Connection with, Or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of These Kingdoms by Josiah Tucker

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