Definition of Entreaties. Meaning of Entreaties. Synonyms of Entreaties

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Definition of Entreaties

Entreaties
Entreaty En*treat"y, n.; pl. Entreaties. 1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. --Spenser. Syn: Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.

Meaning of Entreaties from wikipedia

- Entreaty was a black New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred mare, who was unplaced in her only race start. She produced twelve horses, one of which was the champion...
- Swaddled baby votives are figures of babies offered as an entreaty to a god or goddess, for healthy pregnancy and childbirth. They have been recovered...
- one side or the other in a trial. This may be by promise, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments and the like. In English law, embracery was an...
- antislavery Democratic Party members, Lincoln resisted early Republican entreaties, fearing that the new party would become a platform for extreme abolitionists...
- Alexius I Comnenus provided transport across the Bosporus. Despite Peter's entreaties to restrain themselves, the Crusaders engaged the Turks at once and were...
- for not producing a son. According to one source, it was only by the entreaties of Emperor Wilhelm I that a separation never occurred. Maria Anna was...
- more extreme measures of the Parlement de Paris, and also of the public entreaties for moderation of Philip Melanchthon. The placards carried the title "Genuine...
- Company. This plan, which was well on its way to fruition despite the entreaties of Tswana leaders who toured England in protest, was eventually foiled...
- river which flows into the sea at Margate is called "Nkhongweni" (place of entreaty) as the original inhabitants of the area were reputed to be so mean resulting...
- emperor is depicted in a dignified manner. The Deësis mosaic (Δέησις, "Entreaty") probably dates from 1261. It was commissioned to mark the end of 57 years...