All 3 Uses
entreat
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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- It broke from him like a wail of despair from a hell of sufferers and died in a wail of furious entreaty, a cry for an iniquitous abandonment, a cry which was but the echo of an obscene scrawl which he had read on the oozing wall of a urinal.†
Chpt 2entreaty = an earnest request
- God appealed to you, threatened you, entreated you to return to Him.†
Chpt 3 *entreated = asked earnestly
- The Ruler of the universe entreated you, a creature of clay, to love Him Who made you and to keep His law.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(entreat) to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)