All 7 Uses
entreat
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- 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.p. 9.5 *entreated = asked - Set your entreatments at a higher rate
Than a command to parle.†p. 47.6entreatments = acts of asking earnestly - I entreat you both
That, being of so young days brought up with him
And sith so neighbored to his youth and havior,
That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
Some little time, so by your companies
To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather
So much as from occasion you may glean,
Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus
That, opened, lies within our remedy.†p. 83.1entreat = ask earnestly - Both your Majesties
Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
Put your dread pleasures more into command
Than to entreaty.†p. 83.7entreaty = an earnest request - Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
Gives him three-score thousand crowns in annual
fee
And his commission to employ those soldiers,
So levied as before, against the Polack,
With an entreaty, herein further shown,
[He gives a paper.]†p. 87.6 - 'Tis most true,
And he beseeched me to entreat your Majesties
To hear and see the matter.†p. 125.2entreat = ask earnestly - —My lord, do as you please,
But, if you hold it fit, after the play
Let his queen-mother all alone entreat him
To show his grief.†p. 135.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(entreat) to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)