intreat
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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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
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
It is possible also that your Honour will mislike hereof for that I have not by mine own travel and eyesight viewed such things as I do here intreat of.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
If nerve and horse are good enough, go into every field with them, but, I intreat you, ride like a sportsman, and give the hounds plenty of room.
From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
Therefore he went on to entreat volubly, “Forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat Jehovah your God that He may take away from me this death only.”
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick
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