Definition of Entreaty. Meaning of Entreaty. Synonyms of Entreaty

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Definition of Entreaty

Entreaty
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 Entreaty from wikipedia

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- antislavery Democratic Party members, Lincoln resisted early Republican entreaties, fearing that the new party would become a platform for extreme abolitionists...
- Georgia election results and appoint a pro-Trump slate of electors, an entreaty rebuffed by Kemp. On December 20, Giuliani filed a petition with the U...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- appearing uninjured afterwards, he heeded the Senators' team physician's entreaties to go to the hospital, where he died the next day of a fractured skull...
- southwestward, and General Lee continued to reject General Grant's surrender entreaties until Sheridan's infantry and cavalry encircled the shrinking Army of...
- Direction of the War, also known as the "Big Six") were privately making entreaties to the publicly neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms more favorable...
- all that son of your Thetis. He was slaughtering the Phrygians; I tried entreaties, but he went raging on, damming my stream with their bodies; I was so...