Both Uses
entreat
in
The Fountainhead
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- Roark had never known how to entreat and he was not doing it well; his voice was hard, toneless, revealing the effort, so that the plea became an insult to the man who was making him plead.†
Chpt 1.8entreat = ask earnestly
- Dominique, whom he had tried to save from the Banner...When they met in the building, Scarret looked at him expectantly, with an entreating, tentative half-smile, an eager pupil waiting for the teacher's recognition of a lesson well learned and well done.†
Chpt 4.17 *entreating = asking earnestly
Definitions:
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(1)
(entreat) to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)