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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

I command—I intreat you—to say nothing of what you know—not even to Walter—and above all, speak not of him, as you have done just now.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

Such as it is, I intreat the Reader to accept it, and to forgive any Errors in it, in consideration that I am the first who has ventured to treat of such a Subject.

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

I request you--I intreat you--I command you, to marry him!

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Consider me no more, I intreat you, as a founder, or any great personage; your encomiums do but ill agree with such multiplied weaknesses.

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

Be very earnest with him, and intreat mightily.

From The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by William Mountfort

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