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Definition

to ask — especially while trying hard to overcome resistance

entreated = asked

entreaties = earnest requests

The students entreated the Chinese troops not to use force against peaceful student demonstrations.

entreated = asked earnestly

I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-countryman which lies before you. I demand no more than the opportunity to do so without delay. Is not that my right?
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

entreat = ask

But the man's mind was made up, closed to all entreaties.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

entreaties = earnest requests

Someone who will not plead, or explain, or think he can alter my design with entreaties, because he alone really knows how I operate.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

entreaties = attempts to persuade

Her eyes entreated him to understand.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

entreated = asked

I entreated, and finally attempted to force her to retire.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

entreated = asked earnestly

Many of the women in the neighborhood commented on how well she kept herself and some had asked her if she would mind showing them how, though she had always taken these entreaties merely as their way of making conversation with their lone foreign-born neighbor.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

entreaties = requests

She wakes; and I entreated her come forth
And bear this work of heaven with patience:
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

entreated = asked

Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs.
William Shakespeare -- The Tempest

entreat = ask

I want your worship to take it upon yourself to redress this wrong either by entreaty or by arms;
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

entreaty = earnest request

Miss Dashwood, for half an hour—for ten minutes— I entreat you to stay.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility

entreat = ask

I entreat Mr. Traddles to bear with me in entering into these details.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

entreat = ask

If she cannot entreat, I can compel.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream

entreat = persuade

You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

entreat = ask

entreat = attempt to persuade

Let me entreat you never to think of him again, my dear Catherine; indeed he is unworthy of you.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey

entreat = ask earnestly

Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night;
That, if again this apparition come
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

entreated = asked

He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Antonia!"
Willa Cather -- My Antonia

entreatingly = in a pleading manner

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