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 Phar Lap...
- antislavery Democratic Party members, Lincoln resisted early Republican entreaties, fearing that the new party would become a platform for extreme abolitionists...
- 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...
- the Lombards. With the Byzantine military focused on the East, these entreaties proved unsuccessful; in 584, Pelagius II wrote to Gregory as apocrisiarius...
- forced to sign the act for the restoration of the stadtholderate. After entreaties by his wife, he signed the contract but added "V.C." to his signature...
- Ovid's abandonment of a Gigantomachy in favor of elegy. Poems 2 and 3 are entreaties to a guardian to let the poet see Corinna, poem 6 is a lament for Corinna's...
- continental ban on trade with Britain. The First Continental Congress had sent entreaties to King George III to stop the Intolerable Acts. They also created the...
- respect from, the Pops' ranks, culminating in this latest instance. After entreaties by the management and personal apologies from the musicians, Williams...
- persuade them gently to reconsider. Charlie and Abby mistake Liz and Pete's entreaties as approval, and announce that they have decided to move up their wedding...
- party) asked him for only a slight compromise; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from...