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entreat

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1. entreat - Noun

2. entreat - Verb

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To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

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.

To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.

To invite; to entertain.

To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.

To make an earnest petition or request.

Entreaty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Coherent Counsel! Good man. Require of us our terribly excluded blue. Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land. Put hand in hand land over. Reprove the abler droughts and manias of the day and a felicity entreat. Love. Complete your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew stance, testament. Gwendolyn Brooks

Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet, From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so, Who art not missed by any that entreat. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But the chief design of this paper is not to disprove it, which many have sufficiently done; but to entreat Americans to consider. Thomas Paine

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. Archibald Alexander

Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off. Italian Proverb

Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won't carry the sack, give him a whack. German Proverb

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