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ENTREATY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Earnest or urgent request
Example:
an appeal to the public to keep calm
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("entreaty" is a kind of...):
asking; request (the verbal act of requesting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entreaty"):
adjuration (a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something)
demagoguery; demagogy (impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace)
plea; supplication (a humble request for help from someone in authority)
solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)
suit (a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank)
courting; courtship; suit; wooing (a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage))
Context examples:
At his wife’s entreaty he had just retired from the ring, and was uncertain how he should employ himself.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At last, overcome by her persistent entreaties that he would take something, he lifted the glass and drank again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The lady could not but yield to such joint entreaties, and promise to stay.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“There was no scath done. Come back, friend”—and so, by mingled pushing and entreaties, they got his head round for Christchurch once more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By dint of entreaties expressed in energetic whispers, I reduced the half-dozen to two: these however, he vowed he would select himself.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She gathered many of the stones which I built into the walls of the hut; also, she turned a deaf ear to my entreaties when I begged her to desist.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A sacrifice was always noble; and if she had given way to their entreaties, she should have been spared the distressing idea of a friend displeased, a brother angry, and a scheme of great happiness to both destroyed, perhaps through her means.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was too good!—she could not endure the thought!—she would not give him such a troublesome office for the world,—brought on the desired repetition of entreaties and assurances,—and a very few minutes settled the business.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister's entreaties, and consented to go out with her and Mrs. Jennings one morning for half an hour.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She was about to renew her entreaties when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps was heard upon the stairs.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
