ENTREAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entreat mean? 

• ENTREAT (verb)
  The verb ENTREAT has 1 sense:

1. ask for or request earnestly

  Familiarity information: ENTREAT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTREAT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they entreat    ... he / she / it entreats   
Past simple: entreated   
Past participle: entreated   
-ing form: entreating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ask for or request earnestly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

adjure; beseech; bid; conjure; entreat; press

Context example:

The prophet bid all people to become good persons

Hypernyms (to "entreat" is one way to...):

plead (appeal or request earnestly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was very earnestly and humbly entreating Miss Murdstone's pardon, which that lady granted, and a perfect reconciliation took place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For one letter, at all risks, all hazards, I must entreat.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She spoke to him, ordered, entreated, and insisted in vain.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Entreating him, therefore, to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I did not know who it was, and I entreated him three times either to speak or to go away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The captain had often entreated me to strip myself of my savage dress, and offered to lend me the best suit of clothes he had.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Herewith, my fair lady, I send my humble regards, entreating you that you will give the same to your daughter, the Lady Maude.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)