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    Someone who will not plead, or explain, or think he can alter my design with entreaties, because he alone really knows how I operate.  (source)
    entreaties = attempts to persuade
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    I entreat you, never bother me again for the rest of my life, and don't ever dare to repeat what you've just said to me, my sister might hear it and we don't need one more unhappy person in this house.  (source)
    entreat = ask
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    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.  (source)
    entreaties = requests
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    I entreat you - nay, I command you - to return to your own place. I should be put to shame if I let such young warriors fall in battle on my side.  (source)
    entreat = ask
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    Her eyes entreated him to understand.  (source)
    entreated = asked
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    But the man's mind was made up, closed to all entreaties.  (source)
    entreaties = earnest requests
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    he asked again, this time fondly, with a note of entreaty.  (source)
    entreaty = pleading or attempt at persuasion
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    There was one voice of a young woman, ... and entreating for some favor,  (source)
    entreating = asking
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    "I won't be any trouble," Clary said, gazing entreatingly past Jace's white-hot glare at Maryse.  (source)
    entreatingly = in a pleading manner
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    "Come on, Gemma," Ann entreats.†  (source)
    entreats = asks earnestly
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    He thus resum'd; "So may he do for thee Freely what thou entreatest, as thou yet Be pleas'd, imprison'd Spirit!†  (source)
    entreatest = to ask earnestly
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou entreatest" in older English, today we say "You entreat."
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    24:21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.†  (source)
    entreateth = requests earnestly
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She entreateth" in older English, today we say "She entreats."
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    He said, and devised foul entreatment of noble Hector.†  (source)
    entreatment = the act of asking earnestly
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