To entreat is to ask for something that is really important, like when you entreat the jury to spare your life.
To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
Verb
ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
v. t.
To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
v. t.
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired;
hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency;
to supplicate; to importune.
v. t.
To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon
by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
v. t.
To invite; to entertain.
v. i.
To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into
negotiations, as for a treaty.
v. i.
To make an earnest petition or request.
n.
Entreaty.
Entreat
Fairly let her be entreated.
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.2.
I must entreat of you some of that money.
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife.3.
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.4.
Entreat
Of which I shall have further occasion to entreat.
Alexander . . . was first that entreated of true peace with them.2.
The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.
Entreat
To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
Entreaty.
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