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Definition of entreating : of Entreat

Synonyms:

begging, appealing, imploring, greeting, applying, addressing, petitioning, enticing, pleading, requesting, soliciting, supplicating, approaching, buttonholing, beseeching, accosting, inviting

Usage examples:

• At the place of execution, to which he was conveyed in a mourning coach, he turned pale, seemed uneasy, and complained that he was very sick, entreating a gentleman by him to support him with his hand. - "Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences", Arthur L. Hayward.
• From where he sat in the hall he could hear Lord Chetney bidding her farewell; for, if my idea of him is correct, he understands English quite as well as you or I. Let us imagine that he heard her entreating Chetney not to leave her, reminding him of his former wish to marry her, and let us suppose that he hears Chetney denounce her, and tell her that at Cairo he has learned of this Russian admirer- the servant's master. - "In the Fog", Richard Harding Davis.
• He went on entreating: Just a word in your handwriting, sir, so she can know it's all right. - "The Valley of the Kings", Marmaduke Pickthall.