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Webster 1913 Edition


Entreaty

En-treat′y

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Noun.
;
pl.
Entreaties
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1.
Treatment; reception; entertainment.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
2.
The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
Syn. – Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.

Webster 1828 Edition


Entreaty

ENTRE'ATY

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Noun.
Urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation; supplication.
The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. Prov.18.