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entreaty
[
en-
tree
-tee
]
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Origin
en·treat·y
/
ɛnˈtri
ti
/
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[
en-
tree
-tee
]
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noun,
plural
-treat·ies.
earnest request or petition; supplication.
Origin:
1515–25;
entreat
+
-y
3
Synonyms
appeal, suit, plea, solicitation.
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She found a way to convert commercial
entreaty
and flimflammery into something pleasing.
But again, before the god's majesty, no
entreaty
was possible.
But there is no need to add his own small weight of
entreaty
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She found a way to convert commercial
entreaty
and flimflammery into something pleasing.
But again, before the god's majesty, no
entreaty
was possible.
But there is no need to add his own small weight of
entreaty
.
Her hands are spread out in a gesture of tormented
entreaty
and her eyebrows tearfully knit.
Kitsch politely squashes her
entreaty
to join the merry-go-round.
Virtually the same stiff
entreaty
echoes eerily through my great-uncle's letter to a rich cousin:.
Augustine describes his mother crying for his salvation, crying in
entreaty
to him to mend his evil ways.
Lyrically, it's a sadsack emo boy's
entreaty
to a girl:.
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World English Dictionary
entreaty
(ɪnˈtriːtɪ)
—
n
,
pl
-treaties
an earnest request or petition; supplication; plea
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
entreaty
1520s; see
entreat
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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